尊敬的女士/先生：

在此，就王雯同學申請貴校機械工程學博士項目一事，我欣然寫下這封推薦信。她是我曾教過的的學生之一。

作為中國工程院院士和北京航空航天大學的教授，我熟悉王雯已有大約3年時間。在此期間，我對她出色的表現(xiàn)和孜孜不倦的求知印象頗深。她是一位深具潛力的學生，從其取得的學術(shù)成績和完成的研究項目便可獲悉。

2004年，她獲得保研資格并成為我親自指導的碩士班學生；之前經(jīng)過了重重嚴格選拔，她憑借機械學院本科平均分年級的優(yōu)異成績以及在我實驗室實習的出色表現(xiàn)脫穎而出。進入我的項目組后，她在學習和研究上似乎比以往展現(xiàn)出更大的潛力。她是一位修完我推薦的所有課程的學生，而大部分學生只是挑選一些簡單的課程用來完成學分任務。坦白來講，這些課程大部分都較為困難并極富挑戰(zhàn)性。在我們實驗室，她在許多科目上都名列。另外，她總是能超出我的期望，很快完成布置的任務。正如我所預想，她在機械工程學上比其他學生的前景更加樂觀。

談到研究能力，我認為王雯非常出眾，從以下幾個方面可以說明。首先，在 “可逆反應類型壓榨機虛擬裝配”項目中，一共有3個階段：Solidworks建模、MultiGen Creator修改和Vtree設計。不管在那個階段，她總能個掌握工具的用法，明白怎么使用工具并且指導該項目其他成員。此外，她的畢業(yè)研究項目“基于微波變換的曲線和表面整流和壓縮沖程”也是很好的證明。她是一個研究該領(lǐng)域的學生，沒有實驗室的同伴能夠提供有效幫助。她還自學了微波理論， Matlab (一種用于算法開發(fā)、數(shù)據(jù)可視化、數(shù)據(jù)分析以及數(shù)值計算的高級技術(shù)計算語言和交互式環(huán)境)等等，并且都取得了優(yōu)異的成績?！凹毞智鎺缀谓＜捌湓跀?shù)控加工上的應用”的項目仍然在進行當中，她在小組中發(fā)揮著核心作用。過去3年，她不斷展示著出色的研究和學習能力。作為她的專業(yè)導師，我對她的綜合表現(xiàn)十分滿意。我敢肯定不論是獨自一人還是在團隊中，她都能夠很好地學習和有效地進行研究。

王雯英語水平也很好，所以她將來在貴校學習和工作不會遇到語言上的障礙。我相信，她扎實的學術(shù)研究背景、良好的性格以及在機械工程學的抱負能夠充實你們的團體。同時貴校先進的設備和頗具名望的學者定能滿足她對知識的渴求，引領(lǐng)她邁向新的學術(shù)研究平臺。

鑒于我以上所述，我極力支持她在貴校深造博士項目。如您需要了解更多關(guān)于她的信息，請隨時聯(lián)系我。

謹此致意

姚福生 教授

附原文：

Dear Sir or Madam:

Now I’m very pleased to write this letter of recommendation for Wang, Wen’s admission to your Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering. She is one of the best students I have ever tutored.

In my capacity as an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor in Beihang University, I have known her for about three years, during which she impressed me with her excellent work and persistence in pursuing intellectual achievements. She is a very promising young student and you can find this by seeing her academic records and finished research projects.

She got to be my student in 2004, when I gave her a direct admission into my master program. She stood out through the rigorous selection because her undergraduate GPA ranked in School of Mechanical Engineering, and she did a wonderful job as an intern in my lab. After in, she seemed to have released more potential than ever in studying and research. She is the only one student who finished all the courses that I recommended, while most students just picked some easy ones to meet their credits requirement. Frankly, many of these courses are real tough and challenging. She got top scores in many courses and her GPA ranked the first in our lab. Besides, she can always finish her assignments much faster and better than I expected. As expected, she gained a more profound perspective in mechanical engineering than any other student here.

As for her research ability, I think it is considerably outstanding, which can be illustrated from the following aspects. First, in the program of “Virtual Assembly for Crushing Mill of Reversible Reaction Type”, there were three phases: modeling in SolidWorks, modification in MultiGen Creator, and programming in Vtree. In any phase, she was always the first one who could master the tool, understand how to implement it and then guide other members of the program. Second, for her graduation project “Curve and Surface Fairing and Compression Based on Wavelet Transform”, she was the only student studying in this area, without any help from her peers. Then she studied Wavelet theory, Matlab, etc, all by herself. And the result proved excellent. The project “Subdivision Surface Geometry Modeling and Its Application in the NC Machining” is still going on, and she also plays a central role in the project. During the three years, she has consistently demonstrated an outstanding research and learning ability. As her academic tutor I feel satisfied with her overall performance. I’m sure she can learn and conduct research effectively either independently or in groups.

Wang, Wen has a good command of English, so there is no problem with her in studying or working in your school. I believe her solid academic background, good personality and a resolution in ME research will enrich your community. I also believe the advanced facilities and highly honored scholars in your school will eventually satisfy her intellectual curiosity, and place her on a new academic track.

For the facts and acts I have mentioned above, I strongly support her pursuit of Ph.D. program in your prestigious school. If you need more information about her, please feel free to contact me.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Yao, Fusheng

這封信里的人物——北航的才女王雯，獲得全額獎學金資助、飛往卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學攻讀機械工程博士學位。

如果單論專業(yè)素質(zhì)的話，相信清華、上交、北航、北理工、哈工大、華科等傳統(tǒng)理工科強?？隙ㄓ斜人鼜姷娜?，但終從眾多候選人中脫穎而出的卻只有她一個。其中一個不可忽視的原因在于王雯有一封來自中國工程院院士—— 她的碩士研究生導師—— 強有力的推薦信，王雯站在了巨人的肩膀上。

學校的教授是“勢利眼”嗎？為什么他們看到院士或者知名學者的推薦信就刮目相看？

這一點我們稍微深入想一下就明白了。

首先，能夠爭取到在院士手下做項目或者讀研的機會，就已經(jīng)證明該學生是經(jīng)過了精挑細選的；

其次，以往經(jīng)過了牛人的指導，該學生在眼界、鍛煉機會、科研能力方面都超過了同齡人，比如，有多少學機械的學生能夠在院士的指導下做“可逆反應類型壓榨機虛擬裝配”項目？

后，一個院士或者知名學者的誠信度是很高的，他們不至于為了一個學生而說假話，如果他們的推薦信很“給力”，那么被推薦的學生一定有過人之處。

“的人總是在影響著他周圍的人或事，主動地或者非主動地。”接近的人，沾染他們的“仙氣”，能夠不知不覺中提高自身的實力。

英國數(shù)學家哈代在讀劍橋大學的學期對于當時的偏應試教育體系很不適應，差點轉(zhuǎn)到歷史系，幸運的是他后來及時地遇到了一位真正的數(shù)學家，以致哈代在《一個數(shù)學家的辯白》中對他深表稱頌：“我的眼界初是由樂甫(Love)教授打開的，他只教了我?guī)讓W期，卻使我對分析的嚴謹概念有了初的了解。我從樂甫教授那兒獲益大的是他建議我讀Jordan著名的《分析教程》(樂甫教授畢竟首先是一名應用數(shù)學家)，我永遠也不會忘記這部著作所給予我的震撼，不會忘記那本書對我這一代數(shù)學工作者的激勵。讀了這部著作，我次懂得了數(shù)學的真諦；也是從那時起，我走上了一個真正的數(shù)學家的道路，對數(shù)學樹立了正確的目標，產(chǎn)生了真誠的激情?！?/p>

以上我們舉的例子比較極端，沒有多少人可以接觸到院士或者級數(shù)學大師的機會。但生活中的“牛人”其實特別多，只要是那些在學術(shù)上或者事業(yè)上高你n個等級的人，都可以作為主動接近并學習的對象。

小琳是北大政府管理學院的一位才女，她自幼就有一種造福大眾、獻身公益的遠大理想。她向我講述了一位牛人對她產(chǎn)生的影響：

“對我而言，大四時聽過的一場名為‘中國教育NGO的現(xiàn)狀、發(fā)展以及面臨的挑戰(zhàn)’的講座在觀念重塑方面具有重要意義。講座的主講人叫高廣深，2003年受福特基金會(The Ford Foundation)資助赴美國哥倫比亞大學攻讀MPA學位，曾經(jīng)供職于政府、企業(yè)與Early Childhood Care and Development等機構(gòu)，目前是陽光文化基金會(Sun Culture Foundation)的秘書長。

在講座中，他提出一個觀點：