The national acceptance rates for undergraduate engineering programs have been steadily increasing for the past decade. Despite this, at the undergraduate level, we still have a long way to go to reach the acceptance rate that has been reported for programs at the master’s level.
To give some perspective on this, a study conducted at the University of Illinois found that nearly one in five of all undergraduate engineering students are at least somewhat familiar with the process of writing the proposal for a graduate program.
The reason for this is that the typical undergraduate engineering program is based on the idea of the student taking on a research project for one semester (typically four years max on average). If you think about the research as a “black box” in which you have a theory of what the project is going to be about, the thesis, and all the supporting data, then you have to prove that that’s a theory.
This is an interesting way of looking at the problem. How do you prove something is a theory? How do you convince someone to believe a theory when you can’t prove it? It’s a very tricky problem to solve. There are all sorts of ways to show someone that a theory is a theory without actually proving it. Maybe there’s a way of getting the other person to accept that a theory is a theory without actually proving that it is a theory.
It seems like all sorts of things can get the other person to accept a theory without actually proving it.
We’ve all seen the “no evidence equals no theory” argument, but what if it isn’t really a theory but rather a way of solving a problem? This is where the “proof + theory = theory” concept comes into play. In theory, a theory is a scientific statement that you can prove. In reality, however, it’s not really true in the real world.
The problem is, while proofs can be proved, they can also be disproved. For example, the fact that you dont take your shoes off before you enter a room at a certain temperature is not a scientific statement. It is a scientific fact that you don’t take off your shoes before you enter a room at a certain temperature.
In the real world, we are not just able to disprove scientific statements. We are also able to disprove common sense. Thus, if you want to make a scientific statement, you must first disprove the common sense version. Which means that if you want to prove that a water temperature of 70oF is not dangerous, you must disprove the common sense version of “It is dangerous for you to have that temperature”.
The reason that it’s so crucial to disprove the common sense version of a scientific statement is because we are not the ones making the statement. This is something that we are all doing, we just don’t realize it.
The reasons that we are not the ones that are making the scientific statement are many. The first reason is that we are not paying any attention to how the temperature is changing. We are not paying attention to the fact that the temperature is rising or falling. The temperature is always going to be changing. The problem is the assumption that temperature is static. This is not the case for water. When you turn on the faucet, the temperature of the water is going to change.