· 2020
Making The Strange Familiar: Creativity And The Future Of Engineering Education
- 129citations
- 2020year
Short summary
This paper synthesizes existing definitions of creativity in engineering, highlighting its core components of novelty and applicability.
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Key points
- Engineering creativity involves awareness, observation, imagination, and rearrangement of existing elements.
- It is defined as the production of new facts, laws, relationships, devices, processes, or systems.
- Creativity in engineering requires generating outcomes that are both novel and applicable.
- The process may not always follow usual logical steps.
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Abstract
Several other educators have offered definitions for creativity as it applies to engineering. It has been described as "the awareness, observation, imagination, conceptualization, and rearrangement of existing elements to generate new ideas" Goldsmith described it as "The production and disclosure of a new fact, law, relationship, device or product, process, or system based generally on available knowledge but not following directly, easily, simply, or even by usual logical processes from the guiding information at hand" Pereira (1999) defined creativity as "the capacity to perform mental work that leads to an outcome both novel and applicable.
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