Makassar, October 13, 2000

LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

To Whom It May Concern:

Ms. Rahmi Gobel, S.T. has asked that I prepare this official Letter of Recommendation to support her intention to continue her study to pursue a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering or in Computer Science.  I do so with great enthusiasm.

As I write this letter,  Ms. Gobel has just completed her first degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering,  Hasanuddin University, Makassar, INDONESIA, where I myself  have been with since 1983.  Ms. Gobel was one of my best students. She took all of my classes, mostly in Automatic Control and Linear Systems area, and as I remember it, she was always among the top 5% students in my classes. As my Control Laboratory assistant, Ms. Gobel was among a very few students who were trusted to supervise her fellow students to do experiments with the servomotor we had in the laboratory. With this experience, she was then chosen as one of the very first group of students who joined an apprenticeship program in a national mining industry. This showed the quality Ms. Gobel has in her personality as well as her strong motivation to seek knowledge. With the degree she has completed very successfully and her experience in the laboratory and the industry,  Ms. Gobel may have received offers to hold good  positions in industry, but she has told me that she prefers to continue her study before fully joining the workforce. I appreciate her intention very highly,  because this shows how much she values education.

Ms. Gobel had her study program in our Department very well planned, and had her undergraduate final project well in mind. I supervised her undergraduate final project, which was a unique project related to the development of the Hasanuddin University Library's web-based library on-line. This was a very sophisticated programming work, and Ms. Gobel has demonstrated that she has all the skills needed to complete the project successfully in a relatively very short time. She came to see me regularly to show the progress of her work, and in all these encounters she showed her openness to suggestions and an eagerness to engage in professional discussions that could enhance her understanding of the subject she is interested in. I see in her the many qualities of both an excellent engineer and an enthusiastic researcher.

I have been so thoroughly impressed by Ms. Gobel’s technical competence in her field, and that she showed great interest in learning about the new technology in network-based control systems, I wholeheartedly recommend her for any opportunity to pursue a higher degree program in her field. 

Should you wish any further information, please feel free to contact me, and I will gladly respond to your inquiries.

With kindest regards,

Ir. Rhiza S. Sadjad, M.S.E.E., Ph.D.  
E-mail address: rhiza@unhas.ac.id    URL: http://www.unhas.ac.id/~rhiza/
Home Address: Perumahan UNHAS Blok H-15 Tamalanrea 
                          MAKASSAR Sulsel 90245 INDONESIA
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