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Abandoning Creativity: The Evolution Of Creative Ideas In Engineering Design Course Projects, Elizabeth Starkey, Christine Toh, Scarlett Miller
Abandoning Creativity: The Evolution Of Creative Ideas In Engineering Design Course Projects, Elizabeth Starkey, Christine Toh, Scarlett Miller
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Creativity training has been widely integrated into engineering education as a means to prepare students to be an innovative force in design industry. However, much of this research has focused on training students to be creative idea generators, with limited attention to what happens after this generation. Thus, the current study was developed to understand how creative ideas are promoted or filtered throughout the design process in order to focus our educational efforts. In order to accomplish this, an 8-week study with 136 engineering students was conducted. Our results point to the reduction in creativity throughout the design process and …
Maximizing Virtual Mucax Engineering Design Team Performance, Brett Randall Stone
Maximizing Virtual Mucax Engineering Design Team Performance, Brett Randall Stone
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Teams of design engineers are increasingly working as members of virtual teams, or teams whose members are distributed geographically and communicate mostly through electronic means. In addition, emerging multi-user (MU) applications engage complementary teams in synchronous design activities. These new MU tools are changing the way engineers work together. Together, these factors have created a new and interesting environment in which engineering design teams must function. The work presented here lays out two major themes that teams and their managers can effectively apply to organizing and managing MU teams: 1) teams can maximize their potential productivity by determining the optimal …