Asking the right questions [Life After Graduation]

Engineers are taught to use formulas, physical laws, and complicated calculations to get answers. But it is often more important to ask the right questions. Asking the right questions requires a broad understanding of systems and the applications. It also requires knowledge of the kinds of data that can be acquired with a broad variety of instruments. Asking questions that cannot be answered is useless. The right questions are ones that solve the problem and can be answered.