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Engineering Education
The National Academy of Engineers (NAE) suggests that the essence of engineering the iterative process of designing, predicting ---performance, building, and testing should be taught from the earliest stages of --the curriculum, including the first year. -- (National Academy of Engineers, 2005).
The educational role of faculty members is not to impart knowledge; it is to design learning environments that support the process of knowledge acquisition .
-- (Adams and Felder, 2008; National Research Council, 2000).
Creativity
Creativity as the production of something that is both new and truly valuable
-- Rothenberg
It would seem to be our responsibility to produce some creative engineers or at least not to extinguish the creative spark in our students.
Richard Felder
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Traditional Methods of Engineering Education
Methods intended to develop creativity and high-level thinking skills should not take too much class time
New methods should also not take too much of the instructors time.
Richards (1998) recommends a series of activities to incite creativity when faced with an engineering problem:
Immerse yourself in a domain or problem; Be prolificgenerate lots of ideas; Use tools for representations and thoughts (e.g., brainstorming,notebooks &sketches); Play with ideas; Avoid premature closure;
Dont be afraid to be different; Be open and receptive to new ideas; Do itpractice your craft; Maintain a product orientation; Relaxindulge your diversions; Reflectreview what you have done; Have fun!
The National Curriculum Handbook included creativity within the section on thinking skills:
Creative thinking skills . . .enable students to suggest hypotheses, to generate and extend ideas, to apply imagination, and to look for alternative innovative outcomes.
Chair ?
Four legs
Arms
Back rest
Chair
Why Not like this?
Suggest Hypotheses
Apply Imagination
Fan ?
The Dyson Air Multiplier introduced the amazing technology of a fan with no blades
video
Watermelon . Shape?
Creativity is the application of knowledge and skills in new ways to achieve a valued goal. To achieve this, learners must have four key qualities:
The ability to identify new problems, rather than depending on others to define them
The ability to transfer knowledge gained in one context to another in order to solve a problem
A belief in learning as an incremental process, in which repeated attempts will eventually lead to success
Thank You
Prof.P.Madar Valli GIT,Gitam University India