Stimulating creativity: teaching engineers to be innovators

作者: L.G. Richards

DOI: 10.1109/FIE.1998.738551

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摘要: Engineering is a creative profession; indeed that phrase appears in the title of consistently popular introductory textbook. Yet few courses standard engineering curriculum require or even encourage creativity. Students often feel behavior actively discouraged their classes. Several engineers have designed programs to foster creativity, and recently rekindled interest design has led greater emphasis on innovative thinking. Although creativity generally required for first fourth year projects, it curiously absent in-between. In this paper, authors explore nature of, conditions supporting, how education describe several teach students be innovators.