Little bit about me

Subject: Self-introduction

Dear Prof Brad,

I am writing to you to introduce myself, my name is Jarod Chia studying in Sustainable Infrastructure (Land). I graduated from Temasek Polytechnic with a diploma in Clean energy. Studying Clean energy has taught me much about the different ways we can harness energy from our surroundings and use them to power our cities. I believe that in the future with fossil fuels being depleted, we need to start looking into renewable energy as a power source for the near future.

My purpose in continuing my studies in Sustainable Infrastructure, is to build on my foundations of electrical engineering and learn about mechanical engineering. In the past, I did not learn any physics in secondary school or polytechnic. Therefore, one of my concerns is learning physics from scratch and keeping up with the classes. Some goals that I have in this module is to improve on my workplace communication skills and improve on my writing skills. These two skills would allow me to communicate well In a workplace as communication is important to relay instructions as well as information.

During my time in Temasek Polytechnic, I realized that I am confident in giving presentations in front of the class. This is provided I had enough time to prepare for the presentation or that I am well versed in the topic I was presenting on. One weakness that I have is structuring my sentences to allow myself to express my thoughts and ideas smoothly. Many times, I get stuck trying to figure out how to carry on and keep the flow of the sentence.

I hope that this module would build on the communication skills that I learned from my secondary and polytechnic school days and teach new skills that can be used in the future.

Best regards,

Jarod