Find your path [electronic resource] : Unconventional lessons from 36 leading scientists and engineers

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자료유형	e-Book
서명/저자사항	Find your path [electronic resource]: Unconventional lessons from 36 leading scientists and engineers / Daniel Goodman.
개인저자	Goodman, Daniel (Daniel Lawrence), author.
발행사항	Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019.
형태사항	1 online resource (408 pages).
기타형태 저록	Print version: Goodman, Daniel (Daniel Lawrence), author. Find your path 9780262537544
ISBN	9780262354837 0262354837
내용주기	Intro; Contents; Preface; Career and Life Guidance; Process and Organization; Acknowledgments; How to Read This Book; I. The Entrepreneurs; 1. Love of the Unknown; Shuttling between Countries; An Early Specialization; A Lifelong Influence; Juggling Grad School and Family; An Unexpected Direction; From Scientist to Manager; About the Subject; 2. A Lab of My Own; High School Biotech; Social Scientist to Biologist; Leaving Academia; About the Subject; 3. A Mathematical Modeler; An Early Interest in Math; Looking for a Field and a Topic; About the Subject; 4. A Long-Standing Interest Starting OutAn Industrial Experience; Envisioning a Company; Building a Company; Exploring New Opportunities; About the Subject; 5. Start-up or Large Venture; Immigrants and Parachutes; Engineering Molecules; Creating a Start-up; About the Subject; 6. A Company with Values; Science Fairs and New Math; Engineering a Start-up; Learning Research and Business; About the Subject; 7. A Bigger Picture; Early Learning in Science and Humanities; Creating Life; Fascinating Field but Tedious Experiments; A Better Fit; About the Subject; 8. Personal Connections and Serendipity A Telescope in the BasementGraduate School; A Difficult Decision; A Chance Encounter; Volunteering; About the Subject; 9. Tangible Products; An Entrepreneurial Spirit; Classics and Chemistry; Graduate School for Two; Product Design; Returning Home to Cleveland; About the Subject; 10. From Health Care to Robotics; Finding Mentors; Creating Companies; About the Subject; 11. Adapting and Creating; Physicists as Heroes; A Lifelong Mentor; Starting a Company; About the Author; 12. My Dream Job; Family Values; A Rigorous High School; A Support Network; A Terrible First Job; A Dream Second Job Becoming an EnablerAbout the Subject; 13. From Outsider to Collaborator; A Roving Childhood; Muddling into College; Staying at LLNL for Graduate School; Military Research; Becoming a Biologist; The Human Genome; About the Subject; 14. Troubleshooter and Leader; From Forestry to Engineering; Leading a Team; Mentors and Leaders; An Independent Troubleshooter; About the Subject; 15. Learning Business by Finding a Market; A Large University Experiment; An Equipment Supplier; Impressing Initial Customers; Raising Capital; Running a Business; Downsizing to Stay Afloat; A New Organization A Legal Dispute with a CustomerMarket Diversification; About the Author; II. The Academics; 16. The Right Environment; An Interest in Nature; Moving toward Biology; A Favorite Protein; Balancing Academics and Family; About the Subject; 17. The Advantage of Not Fitting in; An Immigrant in New York City; Role Models; Passionate about Physics; Becoming a Theorist; A Difficult Choice; About the Subject; 18. The Long Way Round; Choosing a Direction; A Computer Scientist; A Different World; Deferring the Academic Dream; Returning to Academia; About the Subject; 19. A Flash of Inspiration
요약	Scientists offer personal accounts of the challenges, struggles, successes, U-turns, and satisfactions encountered in their careers in industry, academia, and government.
일반주제명	Science --Vocational guidance. Engineering --Vocational guidance. Scientists --Biography. Engineers --Biography. Women scientists --Biography. Women engineers --Biography. Engineering --Vocational guidance. Engineers. Science --Vocational guidance. Scientists. Women engineers. Women scientists.
분류기호(DDC)	502.3
언어	영어
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