Scientific methods!

Scientific methods!
Why should we approach each engineering problem scientifically and support our solutions with scientific findings? Doing so, will help us avoid the cut and try method, which have often plagued the industry, due to the incompetent ideas of many practicing professionals, who over a long period of time have failed to update themselves, and had stagnated. Many individuals continue to carry with them the childish attitude of throwing their books away after school and get out to the world to play without the facts and figures and proven principles taught in school. The justification? School and practice is entirely alien from each other. Theories don’t agree with experience. Well, my experience is different in my 30 years of engineering and management experience, not to add my doctoral studies. Whenever there is conflict between field practices and theory, chances are, we only see it as such, because we have not thoroughly understood and digested our theory and its conditional requirements or assumptions. Watch always that conflict, and try to check, where the fault line is located, and you will always end up more wiser and more experienced. Review therefore your knowledge of scientific methods of questioning and hypothesis testing.
Written by: Sanoy Suerte, RME/MBM; http://www.linkedin.com/in/sannysuerte ; http://Viralnetworks.com/a/28285 ; http://www.sncgroup-sany.ws