Resume Suggestions

It is to your benefit to include a resume in a universal format (ASCII, PDF, or HTML) whenever you contact a professor. Many professors will not open Word attachments. It is also to your benefit to include a copy of your resume in your application for graduate study. Resumes from undergraduate students or recent BS graduates should be no longer than one page when formatted using an 11-pt font. For people with archived publications and/or significant full-time work experience, resumes should be limited to two pages when using an 11-pt font.

The resume should include the following information:

Name, mailing address, phone, and e-mail address
Objective: be specific. Just saying signal processing or communications is too broad.
Educational information: For each degree received or currently enrolled in, please give the degree, institution name, institution city, institute state/province, and date (or expected date) of graduation. Include the title and summary of your senior design project or thesis if you did one. Also, list your GPA and the maximum possible GPA. If your undergraduate degree is from a university outside of the US, then annotate the GPA listing by the type of system you're in:
GPA: 12.2/20 (French)
GPA: 8.5/10 (India)
If your GPA system is not on a 4.0 scale, then do not try to convert it to a 4.0 system. Do not include your class rank. Do not include any information about schooling completed prior to attending college.
Test scores: please include GRE and TOEFL scores.
Work experience, including the company's name and a 1-2 sentence description of your duties.
Publications (give full citation information, including all authors, volume numbers, and page numbers)
Skills, for example:
- Assembly languages: TI TMS320C5000 DSP, TI TMS320C6000 VLIW DSP, Vax
- High-level languages: C, C++, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Fortran, APL
- Scripting languages: csh, ksh, Perl, sed, sh, Tcl/Tk
- Algorithm development environments: MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, Khoros
- Electronic design automation tools: Ptolemy, SIMULINK, Spice
- Software development tools: makefiles, source code control, Purify

Here are few example resumes:

Resume for Ricardo Garcia (senior BSEE student) in PDF format.
Resume for Kapil Gulati (recent MSEE graduate) in Word format.
Resume for Zukang Shen (recent PhDEE alumnus) in PDF format.

My resume is on the Web at http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/resume/. Keep in mind that this is a different kind of resume that is meant for primarily internal use at UT Austin. For proposals, one is limited to one or two pages for one's resume.

Last updated 02/16/09. Mail comments about this page to bevans@ece.utexas.edu.