Pillar 01+−

Professor Shortlist
Professor Shortlist — University of Ulsan Electrical Engineering
Framing Prof. Kim Jong Myon inside the EE interview
Contact plan — drafting emails to the shortlisted professors

Pillar 02+−

Technical Foundations
Data Structures and Algorithms — foundations you must defend
Clean Architecture — layers, dependency rule, Flutter examples
MVC, MVVM, and friends — UI architecture patterns
Repository pattern and dependency injection — the plumbing that makes Clean Architecture work
Database Design — relational modelling, normalisation, SQL vs NoSQL
System Design and Scalability — caching, load balancing, CAP, stateless services
REST and GraphQL — API design vocabulary
TDD, CI/CD, and Agile — software engineering methodologies
Microservices — concepts, trade-offs, when not to use them
Pillar 02 — Technical Foundations · One-page cheat-sheet

Pillar 03+−

Mobile Stack
Flutter & Dart — fundamentals you must defend
Flutter State Management — setState, Provider, Riverpod, Bloc, GetX
Firebase Auth & Firestore — the data layer of your production apps
Firebase Cloud Functions, FCM, and Storage — the serverless + notification + blob layer
Offline-first architecture — Hive, Firestore persistence, sync, conflicts
Mobile Performance — frame rate, jank, build cost, memory
Android Native — Activities, Services, Intents, lifecycles
CI/CD, Play Store, Signing — shipping Flutter apps to production
Pillar 03 — Mobile Stack · One-page cheat-sheet

Pillar 04+−

Research Foundations
Literature review — search, screen, organise, cite
IEEE & ACM format — paper structure, citations, BibTeX
Research methodology — questions, hypotheses, experiments
Quantitative analysis — statistics for research interviews
Technical writing — SRS, requirements, use-cases
Design documents and architecture diagrams
UML — the four diagrams you will be asked to draw
DFD and ER diagrams — data flow and entity relationships
API documentation — OpenAPI, Swagger, REST conventions
Pillar 04 — Research Foundations · One-page cheat-sheet

Pillar 05+−

Thesis Research
Structural Health Monitoring — Domain Primer
Acoustic Emission (AE) Signals — the physics and the features
Vibration Analysis for SHM
Machine Learning for SHM (classical ML, not deep learning)
Deep Learning for SHM
Anomaly Detection Methods — the full landscape
Edge AI Fundamentals
Multi-Sensor Fusion
Digital Signal Processing — the basics
Fourier Analysis
Wavelet Transforms
Time-Frequency Analysis — STFT, Wavelets, Wigner-Ville, and friends
Prof. Kim Jong Myon — Paper Summary Sheet
Prof. Insoo Koo — Paper Summary Sheet
Thesis Proposal — the 60-second pitch (word-by-word)
Thesis Scope and Trade-offs
Pillar 05 — Thesis Research Cheat Sheet

Pillar 06+−

Project Defense
TNTJ — Architecture Overview
TNTJ — Your Contributions (the rehearsable narrative)
TNTJ — Hard Questions and Answers
Kizu — Architecture Overview
Kizu — Your Contributions (rehearsable narrative, honest and defensible)
Kizu — Hard Questions and Answers
Capstone — "Scalability and Performance Analysis of the TNTJ Blood Donation Matching System"
Capstone — 3-minute presentation script
Pillar 06 — Project Defense · One-page cheat-sheet

Pillar 07+−

Narrative Soft Questions
The 90-second self-introduction
Why Korea — the Seongsu Bridge narrative, rehearsed
Why University of Ulsan — specific, researched, defensible
Why Electrical Engineering — the transfer reframed as research fit
The GPA story — 63.8% undergrad → 3.19/4.0 postgrad → 4.0 project
Civil → Software → SHM — the pivot is the strength
The 5-to-10 year plan — concrete, defensible, mission-aligned
"What if we don't accept you?" — graceful resilience
Weaknesses, mistakes, and honest self-awareness
Questions to ask the panel — always comes up, always matters
Pillar 07 — Narrative & Soft Questions · One-page cheat-sheet

Pillar 08+−

Mock Interview
Mock Interview — 30-minute standard panel
Mock Interview — 45-minute deep technical grilling
Mock Interview — Rapid-Fire Round (10 minutes, 30 questions)
Mock Interview — Trap Questions
Mock Interview — Live Whiteboard / Screen Drawing
Mock Interview — Post-Interview Debrief Template
Pillar 08 — Mock Interview · One-page cheat-sheet

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