An Investigation of Criteria for Creativity in Engineers
Author : Thomas Barton Sprecher
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Engineering
ISBN :
Creativity in Engineering
Author : David H Cropley
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0128003189
Book Description
Creativity is like an iceberg - the resulting new idea, or novel solution is only 10% of the effort. The other 90% is the complex interplay of thinking skills and strategies, personal and motivational properties that activate these skills and strategies, and the social and organizational factors of the environment that influence the creative process. Creativity in Engineering focuses on the Process, Person, Product, and Place to understand when and why creativity happens in the engineering environment and how it can be further encouraged. Special Features: Applies findings in creativity research to the engineering arena Defines engineering creativity and differentiates it from innovation Discusses personality and motivational factors that impact creativity Clarifies the role of creativity in the design process Details the impact of thinking skills and strategies in creativity Identifies the role the organization and environment plays in encouraging creativity Discusses the 4P's of Creativity: Person, Product, Process, and Place Provides tactics and tools that will help users foster creativity in engineering environments Identifies how creativity results in innovative new solutions to problems Applies creativity research and knowledge to the engineering space
Creativity in Research and Invention in the Physical Sciences
Author : Mildred Benton
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN :
Book Description
An Experimental Investigation of the State of Creativity, Critical Thinking and Creativity Training in Undergraduate Engineering Students
Author : Eric O. Solá
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Based on this evidence, current engineering education methods are detrimental not only to the creative skills of engineering students, but their critical thinking capabilities as well. Experiment 2 results suggested that long-term creativity training provides statistically significant improvements over short-term creativity training (F = 40.381, P-Value = 0.000). This significance was established even though the long-term group was found to have been trained inadvertently before the start of their official training, simply by their knowledge of the course's requirements to provide creative solutions. As such, these results suggest both that continuous creativity training benefits the recipient individuals, and that beginning a more creative approach to collegiate engineering curricula may start as easily as initiating courses with the known expectation that students use creativity in their problem solving whenever feasible. This study provides new insights into the state of creativity and critical thinking in undergraduate engineers. Based on the resulting data, engineering education must be examined and restructured to provide students with the necessary tools to improve their creative and critical thinking skills. Through the use of creativity and critical thinking training and instruction methods, educators can effectively address these observed deficiencies, resulting in engineering students being better prepared for their professional lives within the 21st century workplace.
Creativity For Engineers
Author : B S Dhillon
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2006-02-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9814479152
Book Description
Creativity is playing an ever more important role in the success or failure of organizations in the global competitive economy. The field of engineering is no exception. The objective of this book is to satisfy this vital need, which has been covered very little elsewhere.The book, which assumes no prior knowledge, will be useful to many people including all kinds of professional engineers, engineering managers, graduate and senior undergraduate students of engineering, and researchers and instructors in engineering, psychology, and business administration. At the end of each chapter there are numerous problems to test readers' comprehension. The book also includes a comprehensive list of references directly or indirectly related to creativity in engineering.
Creative Engineering Design Assessment
Author : Christine Charyton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2013-09-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1447153790
Book Description
The Creative Engineering Design Assessment or CEDA is a newly developed tool to assess creativity specific to engineering design which is vital for innovation. The revised CEDA assesses usefulness in addition to originality. Both originality and usefulness are key constructs in creativity but are primarily essential and emphasized ever more in engineering design. Since the preliminary research was presented to the National Science Foundation, further reliability and validity has been developed and established. The CEDA is different from other general creativity measures as it demonstrates discriminant validity with the Creative Personality Scale, Creative Temperament Scale, and the Cognitive Risk Tolerance Scale, and has demonstrated convergent validity with the Purdue Creativity Test and the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test- Rotations. It focuses on engineering specific measures, measuring engineering creativity and spatial skills. The aim of this book is to disseminate the CEDA tool for use in engineering educational programs, industry, NASA and the military. Creative Engineering Design Assessment (CEDA) Background, Directions, Manual, Scoring Guide and Uses discusses and outlines the need for creativity in our global economy and in engineering design and provides the CEDA tool in effort to achieve this.
An Experimental Investigation of the State of Creativity in Relation to Extracurricular Activities and GPA in Undergraduate Engineering Students
Author : Maria Cristina González
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2022
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Measuring creativity for engineering is paramount; previous research has shown that creativity diminishes as students advance through college. This study intends to find possible predictors for creativity in these students. These predictors include GPA, Hobbies, and Extracurriculars while using the Test of Creativity Thinking -- Drawing Production (TCT-DP) as a benchmark for creativity. Participants were Junior and Senior year engineering students in Spring 2021. All eligible study participants were provided a TCT-DP and survey to complete. Individual creative ability was assessed from the resulting TCT-DP using a 13 categorical scoring matrix by independently trained evaluators using the scoring guidelines. The accompanying survey was paired with the creativity scores to provide insight into the participants' leisure habits, Grade Point Average (GPA), and demographics. Multiple linear regression models were used to analyze the relationship between predictor variables and creativity. Results indicated that extracurricular activities and hobbies were predictors of creativity primarily through activities related to the Arts, although additional time spent on these activities does not significantly affect this relationship. GPA was also a predictor of creativity by increasing scores across GPA ranges. The results suggest that participation in any extracurricular or hobby category may be a leading predictor more than the time spent performing that activity. More opportunities for students engaged in extracurricular or hobbies, especially if tied into interdisciplinary categories such as the Arts, would, in theory, produce more workplace-valued creative thinking engineers.
Practical Creativity and Innovation in Systems Engineering
Author : Avner Engel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1119383234
Book Description
A guide to systems engineering that highlights creativity and innovation in order to foster great ideas and carry them out Practical Creativity and Innovation in Systems Engineering exposes engineers to a broad set of creative methods they can adopt in their daily practices. In addition, this book guides engineers to become entrepreneurs within traditional engineering companies, promoting creative and innovative culture around them. The author describes basic systems engineering concepts and includes an abbreviated summary of Standard 15288 systems’ life cycle processes. He then provides an extensive collection of practical creative methods which are linked to the various systems’ life cycle processes. Next, the author discusses obstacles to innovation and, in particular, how engineers can push creative ideas through layers of reactionary bureaucracy within non-innovative organizations. Finally, the author provides a comprehensive description of an exemplary creative and innovative case study recently completed. The book is filled with illustrative examples and offers effective guidelines that can enhance individual engineers’ creative prowess as well as be used to create an organizational culture where creativity and innovation flourishes. This important book: Offers typical systems engineering processes that can be accomplished in creative ways throughout the development and post-development portions of a system's lifetime. Includes a large collection of practical creative methods applicable to engineering and other technological domains Includes innovation advice needed to transform creative ideas into new products, services, businesses and marketing processes Contains references and notes for further reading in every section Written for systems engineering practitioners, graduate school students and faculty members of systems, electrical, aerospace, mechanical and industrial engineering schools, Practical Creativity and Innovation in Systems Engineering offers a useful guide for creating a culture that promotes innovation.
Emerging Technologies and Ethical Issues in Engineering
Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2004-10-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 030909271X
Book Description
Engineers and ethicists participated in a workshop to discuss the responsible development of new technologies. Presenters examined four areas of engineering-sustainability, nanotechnology, neurotechnology, and energy-in terms of the ethical issues they present to engineers in particular and society as a whole. Approaches to ethical issues include: analyzing the factual, conceptual, application, and moral aspects of an issue; evaluating the risks and responsibilities of a particular course of action; and using theories of ethics or codes of ethics developed by engineering societies as a basis for decision making. Ethics can be built into the education of engineering students and professionals, either as an aspect of courses already being taught or as a component of engineering projects to be examined along with research findings. Engineering practice workshops can also be effective, particularly when they include discussions with experienced engineers. This volume includes papers on all of these topics by experts in many fields. The consensus among workshop participants is that material on ethics should be an ongoing part of engineering education and engineering practice.
A Source Book for Creative Thinking
Author : Sidney Jay Parnes
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN :
