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"The interview would normally be 25-30 mins long. The topics that you would be
interviewed on mainly are:
-Probability theory stuff (various probability distributions
especially Gaussian curve etc)
-Basic Communication and Digital communication stuff etc
-Basics of Linear Algebra e.g., Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, Rank of a
matrix etc
Imp: Keep your cv with u and revise and go thru well whatever u have written in
that, they will ask abt whtever u have mentioned in that.
Also in your application for admission, whatever you mentioned as interest and
field.
Don't panic, speak easily and properly. The interview is not that difficult,
however it is important to perform good in it.
Practice speaking English with someone for atleast 30-40 minutes."
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1) Eigenvalue definition
2) Eigenvector definition
3) The equation for finding eigenvalues det ( A - lambda I) = 0
4) Gaussian Curve and its controlling parameters
5) Equation for Discrete time Fourier transform
6) BPSK definition
7) QPSK definition
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Review the material (from your B.E.) that is related to the first semester courses
here. The interview will be taken by the Professor whose
interests match your own, and the questions depend upon the professor; so I
can't say anything about these! The interview will be on phone,
the professor will email you around 1 week earlier for a time confirmation (as well
as the telephone number you will be available at, remember
that these days the Munich time is 3 hours behind Pakistan's).
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The interviewer (a PhD student) asked few general questions about my project
and the motivation to study MSCE at TUM. Then in technical questions, he
asked:
1. Difference b/w CMOS and Bipolar technologies.
2. Power dissipation in CMOS.
3. Some uP and memories questions...
4. How can throughput of a uP be increased?
5. Few Fourier questions.
6. Few RV models.
Important!!! Usually the interviewer only asks questions from his area of
research. You should find the homepage of your interviewer to have an idea what
will be asked. Hope this will help you in your interview preparation.
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In the technical part, they will ask you about basic concepts of linear algebra,
eigen values, orthogonal matrices etc, probabilty theory, guassian pdf etc.
Also, from computer programming about data structures and general questions
on programming.
They might ask you from general communication theory, sth like modulation,
QPSK, BPSK.
But you only need to know what it is, i.e. the basics and thats it...
For CE, i don't know but my guess is that they ask questions more on electronics
and VLSI.
Apart from that as a general advice make sure you know linear algebra and
probability theory before you come here as otherwise life seem somewhat
difficult, especially Linear algebra if you are in CS.
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the following are some of the questions which a current MSCE student
gave me
1. What are random variables? Their distribution, particularly
gaussian and binomial distribution. What is pdf?
2. What is law of large numbers?
3. Types of transforms studied, like fourier, laplace etc
4. eigen values, what is characteristic equation?
5. probablity: what is conditional probablity, bayes theorem?
plus
6. what are your interests?
7. why have you applied here
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about the interview; it seemed nothing like what I had expected. I was
interviewed by Mr. Tony Poitschke of the Man-Machine Communication group.
There were no questions from communications at all! The interview was
completely from his field (he is a PhD student).
He asked me 1st about how humans gather information. I told him abt the 5
senses. then he asked which sense is most important. I said all are important but
sight is most important. then he asked me about the structure of the eye and i
told him! (from what i remembered from class 9 biology).
he asked some questions abt speech as well.
Then i asked him if he would like to ask some questions from communications.
he said it is not my field! so no questions from that.
and also, the interview started abt questions like why u want to study at TUM and
why u want to study in Germany etc. so be prepared for such questions.
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TUM interview would be general and interviewer won't go deep into a particular topic.
A general set of questions for both Communication System and Electronics potential
candidates could be:
1. About University/Program...
a. Why have you applied here
b. Where else have you applied
c. Your key interest in a particular field of Communication Systems or Electronics
d. About your job if you are doing now after you have completed your BS
e. Anything similar that you have written in your CV or SOP
3. Basics of Probability
a. pdf, cdf, pmf .....
b. He may ask to name some discrete or continuous distributions.
4. Basics of Communication
a. Difference b/w FM and AM.
b. Different digital shift keying or modulation schemes
c. Difference b/w TDM and FDM
d. Name some Error detection or Correction codes. Difference b/w them.
e. Anything simpler like above that covers communication
5. Basics of Electronics
a. No. of Transistor used in constructing AND, OR gates using CMOS
b. Power dissipation in BJT and CMOS. Which one in better?
c. Some similar stuff that you can come across while reading my reply. ;)
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