Makassar, July 14, 2000. 

To Whom It May Concern:

This is an unsolicited letter of recommendation on behalf of Mr. Muhammad Thahir Yusuf, S.T., who has asked that I prepare to support his future plan to continue his study to pursue a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer Science.

As I write this letter,  Mr. Yusuf has just completed his first degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering,  Hasanuddin University, Makassar, INDONESIA, where I myself have been with since 1983. Mr. Yusuf is one of my best students. He took several of my courses in the field of automatic control systems and electronics, and most of the time he made excellent grades out of them.   

I had a chance to know Mr. Yusuf better when he took a very rare opportunity to work on a project offered by the Indonesian state-owned telecommunication company PT. TELKOM for his final undergraduate project. PT. TELKOM was doing some research on the MCS-51 micro-controller system for telephone applications when they asked me to join in. I forwarded this interesting offer to my students, and Mr. Yusuf was the only one who responded promptly. He worked on this project with the engineers from PT. TELKOM at PT. TELKOM facilities. This has surely given him very valuable experience to do research in a cooperation with other researchers.  At the completion of this project our evaluation showed that Mr. Yusuf has really done his job very well. 

I have been so thoroughly impressed by Mr. Yusuf’s eagerness to work on something new with other people he hardly knew before, and that he showed great interest in learning about new technologies, especially in the micro-controller application and design, I wholeheartedly recommend him for any opportunity to pursue a higher degree program in his 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/
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