LOR Request

Foreword

Letter of recommendation is a necessity to advance in your career. It brings me utmost joy to see our students succeed in life, and is always a pleasure to give recommendation letter to potential applicants for job or higher studies.

Please remember that I can only address your accomplishments that I was actively involved in. Ask yourself if I would be the right person to judge your research aptitude and skills. I will try to give an honest and impartial assessment, so also ask yourself if my recommendation would help or hurt your chances of succeeding.

Note: If you enrolled in Masters in BUET, and have dropped out / have F grades in courses, that will also be mentioned in your LOR. We have to comment about the motivation of the student, so you can guess what the response of that question will be in such a case.

Criteria for Getting Recommendation

you MUST meet at least one of the following descriptions/criteria before you try to make an appointment with me for recommendation request.

1. You performed MSc/PhD research work under my supervision
2. Final year thesis/project completed under my supervision
3. Performed some kind of project work under my guidance/in collaboration that resulted in a peer-reveiewed publication
4. You successfully completed my graduate level course
5. You are a colleague / part-time faculty member who directly took any class with me
6. I taught a final-year lab course that you successfully completed, and demonstrated a good project ¹
7. I served as a member in your MSc/PhD examination committee
8. I was an external examiner of your Final year thesis/project
9. My undergraduate advisee

** for serial number 6 and above, I will only give LORs to schools that have application deadline on or AFTER December 15th of the calendar year. Kindly refrain from requesting LORs for other schools**

¹ based on sessional course project alone, it is diffcult to judge your motivation. However, if a project from a theory/lab course was truly exceptional, and resulted in a publication with my approval, I will be happy to recommend you based on your capacity to perform original research/review. Only for final-year lab-course, if I was directly assigned to your section, AND you completed a project successfully in that course, I can recommend you based on your output and ability to solve complex Engineering Problem.

Simply taking an undergraduate theory course does not give the instructor sufficient capacity to judge the research aptitude of a student. As such, if you only interacted with me as a student in my theory course, unfortunately, I will not be in a position to recommend you.

If you are currently enrolled in BUET MSc program under my supervision, please consult with me before applying. Also, consider not adding me as a recommender if your research progress is unsatisfactory. For students enrolled under other faculty members, I will only recommend you only if your current supervisor recommends. You should attach a copy of the consent in the email, otherwise I will have to personally call and confirm with him/her before giving the LOR.

List of Eligible Students

For convenience, I am explicitly listing students who only did my only undergraduate class and would be eligible for LOR. Other students are requested not to send me an email.

• 16 Batch - EEE 416 A1 & A2 (Student ID 001-065)
• 17 Batch - EEE 416 A1 & A2 (Student ID 001-065)
• 18 Batch - EEE 416 A2 (Student ID 033-065)
• 19 Batch - 151-180 (advisee), EEE 416 (Student ID 001-33, 131-163)

Limit of LOR Request

For my direct thesis students (undergraduate, Masters or PhD) there is no upper limit to giving LORs. For other cases, the number of LOR will be limited to 5.

Waiver of Access

In order to receive a LOR from me, you must Waive the right to access to what I write. If you do not waive your access, I would also decline to recommend you. I believe you should only get my recommendation if you trust my judgement sufficiently. I will, however, tell you in person, if I cannot give you a positive recommendation.

If I find that the waiver is not done in an LOR form, I will copy paste the following text in the LOR form:

Steps to Get LOR:

1. Firstly go above to Criteria for Getting Recommendation to check if you are eligible to get a LOR from me. If not I might not respond to your email, or just decline to recommend you.

2. If you are eligible to get a LOR, Please download and fill up the LOR_Request_Form.docx with your information.

3. In a single email, please send the following documents:

   • completed LOR_Request_Form.docx
   • Your transcript (if CGPA mentioning is needed)
   • Your CV (Preferrably in this format: CV Template

In the body of the email, please again write information of the form, upto point 4, and request for the Letter of Recommendation

_If you do not email me properly, I will simply copy and send the following text (keeping it here for my convenience, so that I can copy/paste it.) _

Reply template for ineligible students

Dear X,
Thank you very much for your email. If you could kindly go to my website https://sajid.buet.ac.bd/outreach/LOR and first check if you are eligible to receive an LOR from me. If you are eligible, please fill out the LOR Request form and send me the email again.
Thank you

Reply template for eligible students

Dear X,
Thank you very much for your email. If you could kindly go to my website https://sajid.buet.ac.bd/outreach/LOR and, please fill out the LOR Request form and send me the email again. I will confirm receipt of the email. Start adding my email after my confirmation.
Once you finish submitting all LORs, kindly email and let me know, again, and I will try to submit all of your LORs in one go. You do not need to send me a draft LOR, just the form is sufficient.
For students enrolled under other faculty members, I will only recommend you only if your current supervisor recommends. You should attach a copy of the consent in the email, otherwise I will have to personally call and confirm with him/her before giving the LOR.
Thank you

1. Once I give you consent to give LOR by replying to your email, you may put my official email address sajid(at)eee.buet.ac.bd in the application portal.

2. For convenience, please submit the LOR request of ALL the universities at once. It is much easier for me to finish the LOR submission process in one sitting.

3. If I forget to submit the LOR, please send me an email reminder 1 day before the deadline.