I've lived in Russia between 2003-2009. I am an engineer in the U.S. From the dozens of "engineers" in Russia I met, I found that the bulk of their college level teaching was basically babysitting. They had no real engineering knowledge, and to pass college exams was extraordinarily easy. It was an eye opener for me. They also severely compartmentalize their teaching and knowledge. A VERY intelligent IT engineer I met there accused me of trying to poison his family when I suggested using Sodium Hypochlorite to cleanse an obviously polluted well they used at their dacha. He had no clue about anything chemistry. Total zero. I subsequently found out that throughout the college levels, they basically are diploma mills, with a high level of 'degree inflation'. Not one college graduate I met there had any broad knowledge nor any knowledge or ability beyond an American high school.
It also doesn't seem to be too different from a turboprop (which is also just a turbine with a prop stuck on of course). What are the technical differences between those?
I think it has to do with interests. Some people have an inmate interest in how stuff works, and specifically how it breaks.
I think you can teach someone to troubleshoot in a procedural and methodical manner, but they will always lack the creative "spark" that comes from being actually interested. Procedural troubleshooters are useful, but they won't exceed the bounds of the model they've been taught to work under.
I don’t believe that’s true. It’s an attitude, not some kind of innate skill like reflexes. You can learn to believe in yourself, plus it’s teachable in my experience.
That would be more of a psychological hack. I've never seen this happen. My experience is people behave a certain way (care about what they do up to a roughly defined level) and 10 years later they behave the same. Self esteem tends to change or fluctuate and can be thought, but personally i believe that is not enough for a non-troubleshooting mindset to turn around. Unless you could convince me otherwise?
I think the issue is that helium does not become a solid at 0k at 1atm pressure while hydrogen does. So one needs to do these experiments under less than 1 atm pressure when working with hydrogen or higher temperatures which may then not result in a superfluid state?
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