Letter of Recommendation

Dear Members of the Admission Committee,

I am writing to recommend Md Sadekul Islam for admission and funding into the Ph.D. program
in Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, attesting that he owns every potential needed
academically, professionally, and research-wise.
Sadekul was one of my students during his undergraduate program at the Khulna University of
Engineering and Technology (KUET), Khulna, Bangladesh. I have known him for over eight
years, and I can vouch for his academic prowess to perform excellently academically and
brilliantly in every research work staged at Clemson University. He consistently achieved excellent
results in his academic studies, and he graduated with a CGPA of 3.59/4.00. He earned a
scholarship for his outstanding academic performance for all four consecutive years.
He proved himself to be a talented and bright student, and he has an outstanding knack for both
logical and intuitive thinking. He has extraordinary comprehension, conceptualization, and
situation analysis skills. During the courses I conducted, such as Operation Research, 3D Drawing,
Tool Engineering, CAM and Robotics, and Marketing Management, I found him to be attentive
and consistently achieve excellent grades. His thesis, titled "Selection of an Effective Technique
Based on Line Efficiency, Labor Productivity and Resource Utilization for Balancing an Assembly
Line by Using Line Balancing Heuristics and Lean Tools: A Case Study,” which focused on
production enhancement through simulation and optimization, was praiseworthy.
He has also received continuous recognition for successfully applying theoretical knowledge to
product design within the Research and Innovation Department at Walton Hi-Tech Industries PLC,
Bangladesh. His adept communication skills are clear in his interactions with both domestic and
international vendors. In addition, which he uses to develop decision support systems.
Furthermore, he has improved his ability in CAD, using software such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD,
Fusion360, Creo and Unity.
Furthermore, he, along with a team, achieved the first runner-up position at the Advanced
Engineering Management Challenge (AEMC), organized by the Department of Industrial
Engineering and Management at KUET.
In conclusion, Md Sadekul Islam stands as an exceptional candidate for your graduate program,
proving essential qualities such as perseverance, initiative, and intellectual creativity that are
needed to excel in advanced studies. Taking all this into consideration, I emphatically recommend
him for admission to your Ph.D. program.
Best Regards,

Subrata Talapatra
Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Khulna -9203, Bangladesh.
Phone: +8801727555334
Email: subrata@iem.kuet.ac.bd