I applied online. I interviewed at South Dakota Mines
Interview
I had three skype interviews. first one was more personal information about why I want to do a phd and why I was interested in that school. it was short. They send me a couple of papers and asked me to read them and present them after 2 days. papers were related to the research projects that i was going to work on if I got the offer
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Question 1
they asked me to read a couple of papers and present them
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at South Dakota Mines (Rapid City, SD) in Jan 2017
Interview
The initial approach to the professor via email, since my previous educational background, has relative research applications, he set up for a phone interview, questions were asked on TEM, XRD, material synthesis, data analyzing tools. Next, it was an online virtual interview presenting my previous work. And he got back to me in two weeks
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Question 1
Questions on the technical part of the research,
questions on knowledge on TEM, SEM, XRD (it was not difficult, he was checking how much I know how to operate them)
Questions on long term commitment
I applied online. I interviewed at South Dakota Mines (Rapid City, SD) in Apr 2014
Interview
After submission of application I first received a confirmation email then following got another email from the graduate school for a phone interview schedule. I had a phone interview with the Dean. It was straight forward.
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Question 1
Why do you want to get a PhD? He asked me why I wanted to obtain a PhD? why School of Mines? what are my long term goals? I talked about my long term goals of becoming a researcher/professor in academia.
