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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
Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Publications
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 …
How Engineering Teams Select Design Concepts: A View Through The Lens Of Creativity, Christine Toh, Scarlett Miller
How Engineering Teams Select Design Concepts: A View Through The Lens Of Creativity, Christine Toh, Scarlett Miller
Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Publications
While concept selection is recognized as a crucial component of the engineering design process, little is known about how concepts are selected during this process or what factors affect the selection of creative concepts. To fill this void, content analysis was performed on student engineering design team discussions during a concept selection task. Our results indicate that student design teams typically focus on the technical feasibility of concepts during the selection process. However, teams that identified useful elements of ideas or continued to generate new ideas during this process had a tendency towards selecting creative ideas. These results add to …