Harnessing creativity for design: tests in an introduction to engineering class

被引：0

作者：

Beem, Heather R. ^{[1
]}

Jones, Gwyndaf ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] MIT, D Lab, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

来源：

HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY: SCIENCE, SYSTEMS AND GLOBAL IMPACT 2016, HUMTECH2016 | 2016年 / 159卷

关键词：

creativity; engineering; freshman course; international development; tilling tools;

D O I：

10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.188

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

Exercises targeted at each of the creativity categories were implemented in an engineering seminar for freshmen at MIT's D-Lab. Students built a prototype of a manual tilling tool and were tasked to ideate improvements. They then completed the targeted exercises and immediately transitioned back to ideation of design improvements. Two of the three teams demonstrated originality in response - generating ideas for new features, as opposed to simply changing dimensions of existing features. Greater fluency and elaboration of ideas may have emerged given more time to complete the task. The results suggest that some level of creative capacity was built, and future work is planned to elicit details on these dynamics. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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页码：322 / 325

页数：4