Hybrid career

It is usefiol to consider a career model that identifies four fundamentally different patterns of experience, each having differing trajectories, motivations, and needs within an organization [8] (Table 35.1). An engineer may tend to associate more strongly with or one or instead equally between two, in which case he or she may possess a hybrid career concept. 

Hesselink AT, van den Brule AJ, Brink AA, et al. Comparison of hybrid capture 2 with in situ hybridization for the detection of high-risk human papillomavirus in liquid-based cervical samples. Career. 2004 102(1) 11-18. 

Academic chemistry and industry share an umbilical cord. Universities train chemists for an industrial career. In return, the chemical industry funds some academic training (fellowships) and research (grants). Many professors of chemistry serve as occasional industrial consultants, receiving a handsome fee for their expert advice. Moreover, it is not infrequent for chemical careers to be hybrids, with scientists moving from an academic institution to an industrial environment, or vice versa. 

During his 20-year career with The Dow Chemical Company, Dr. Sehanobish has been responsible for pioneering work in lifetime prediction modeling for polyolefin pipes, structure-property relationships of thermoplastic polymer blends, and the engineering materials science aspects of metals, ceramics, and hybrids. 

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