Creativity in Engineering: Novel Solutions to Complex Problems

✍ Scribed by David H Cropley

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Series: Explorations in Creativity Research
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 4Ps 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

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of Figures, Page xi
List of Tables, Pages xiii-xiv
Foreword, Page xv
Preface, Pages xvii-xxi
Chapter 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-12
Chapter 2 - The Importance of Creativity in Engineering, Pages 13-34
Chapter 3 - Phases: Creativity and the Design Process, Pages 35-61
Chapter 4 - Product: The Creativity of Things, Pages 63-85
Chapter 5 - Process: Generating Creative Ideas, Pages 87-129
Chapter 6 - Person: The Who of Creativity, Pages 131-167
Chapter 7 - Press: Creativity and the Role of the Environment, Pages 169-215
Chapter 8 - Innovation: Exploiting Creativity, Pages 217-226
Chapter 9 - Creativity Training, Pages 227-255
Chapter 10 - Embedding Creativity in Engineering Education, Pages 257-293
References, Pages 295-314
Index, Pages 315-325