No Right Answer

‘Asking the right questions to get the best answers’ How is your project going? Have you chosen the elements you need in the right order? Are you going in the right direction? If you can honestly agree, then you are probably submitting your thesis already! For those who haven’t yet reached that defining moment, you may find it both useful and necessary to step back from day-to-day working. Simplify your ideas and draw connections between them, just like on the spider diagrams you’ve used since school. Given the spectrum of possible approaches to your project, though, there is rarely a ‘right’ answer, and more often than not, many vaguely adequate ones which are difficult to choose from. It is familiar to engineers in particular that the concept of an exact solution becomes blurred by its context. In some cases it can even be proven that we can’t know the ‘right’ answer. We... read more