Linear career

The linear career typically involves a progression of steps, or promotions, within the formal hierarchy of an organization. Climbing the corporate ladder would describe the ideal linear career. An expert career, on the other hand, usually involves a long-term commitment to an engineer s chosen field or specialty, with the work often becoming an important component of self-identity. The department or division guru is a status (even if informal) that experts often aspire to attain. 

Knowing that the better nonlinear constrained methods are now available, why have researchers generally been reluctant to accept them Perhaps the linear approach has an attraction that is not related to performance. Early in a technical career the scientist-engineer is indoctrinated with the principles of linear superposition and analysis. Indeed, a rather large body of knowledge is based on linear methods. The trap that the linear methods lay for us is the existence of a beautiful and complete formalism developed over the years. Why complicate it by requiring the solution to be physically possible ... 

There is good news and bad news in all of this. First, the bad news. The career concepts that many engineers traditionally have followed, often linear or expert in nature, are dwindling in terms of the number of job opportunities available. Engineers, by virtue of the educational demands required (longer and more intense than many other college majors), their more common and traditional association with the core competencies of their employers, and the relatively insulated working environment many have encoimtered [5], have enjoyed favored status in many US companies. 

It looks like water, as it is a colorless liquid at room temperature, with apparently a faint sweet smell (it s not a good career move to try smelling this ). It has a boiling point of 92°G at atmospheric pressure and a density of 2.96 g/cm. Like many HgX2 systems, it has a linear structure, with Hg-G = 2.083 A. 

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