Becoming an expert in your field

Albert Einstein, Gordon Moore, Michio Kaku, Stephen Hawkings are a few names that is been considered as expert in their respective field. The innovation that has been brought by those name has inherently ushered a new era in science and technology.  In the electronic industry you can be sure that any engineer would have heard of Moore's Law either during the tertiary education or in the initial period of their career. I believe every engineer would have dream to become an expert in their respective field.

So how does one considered to be an expert. This is some of things that crosses my mind when word expert comes to being. An expert normally have a in depth understanding of the foundation theory that govern his or her work. For example a good electrical design engineer should already mastered the Kirchhoff law which is an essential foundation in any circuit design. A person who is an expert in their field should know by heart all the foundation theory that revolves around his or her field. Hence when posed with a theoretical question an expert should be able to explain and deliver the answer instinctively

An expert is someone that is known in his field by the number of technical papers and researchers that he or her has published and he is more than capable of substantiating his research with a resounding proof. As a CVD engineer the foundation theory that governs my field i guess would be the physics of the plasma and the chemical reaction that follows, how heat is been transferred and the mass limiting or heat limiting condition are an important aspect that an expert in CVD should be aware of. Plasma is been generated by the energy that is been provided by an external generator which provides the necessary energy for the atoms to reach its activation energy for the electron to be released and with that the generation of photon which varies in terms of color which depends on the plasma material itself. An expert in the field should be indicated by the number of citation that his or her technical papers is able to garnered which means that his research does carry a lot of weight among his peers in the same field.

This is some of the things that i can think of, and it will always been my vision to encapsulates my knowledge with the foundation theory that revolves around this field so that one day i will be able to be listed among the expert of our field today.