Assessing General Creativity and Creative Engineering Design in First Year Engineering Students

Charyton, Christine; Merrill, Jennifer

doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01013.x

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“…Leaders in engineering education have argued that the engineering curriculum should be evolving to allow more creative and open-ended elements through the full curriculum [8][9][10][11]. Other programs have addressed this idea using integrated design spaces [12] and Design-Build-Test (DBT) problems in the curriculum [13][14][15].…”

Section: Engineering Design Is the Process Of Devising A System Compmentioning

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Implementation of a Design Spine for a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Lulay

Dillon

Doughty

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings

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This paper explains the approach taken to develop a "design spine" within our mechanical engineering curriculum. Developing a design spine started as a discussion about the ASME Vision 2030 document, which encourages programs to provide design experience throughout all four years of the curriculum. Towards this end, the mechanical engineering faculty reviewed our curriculum and identified where and how we do teach engineering design in lecture courses, laboratories, and in the capstone design courses. We recognized that many design elements are already incorporated throughout the curriculum but we needed to approach design in a more systematic manner. The very meaning of "engineering design" does not enjoy universal definition. For our purposes, we used the ABET Criterion 5 definition and original ABET 2000 requirements.After the design spine was defined by the faculty, a survey of senior students was administered to evaluate the effectiveness of the design spine. Student survey responses are analyzed and a map for developing a design spine at other universities is provided.

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Section: Engineering Design Is the Process Of Devising A System Compmentioning

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Implementation of a Design Spine for a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Lulay

Dillon

Doughty

et al.

2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings

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“…Creativity has been roughly equated with innovation, 27 and also seen as a separate but necessary ingredient for innovation. 28 An interesting and useful insight into the definition of creativity is that there are multiple creativities. 29,30 Craft, 31 in her critiques of education for creativity, notes that creativity is context specific, and is defined by cultural values.…”

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Assessment and Implementation of an Interdisciplinary General Education Minor

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Gewirtz²,

Benitez³

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…(3) What is novel and what is challenging about this project? (4) What are the specific deliverables you will produce? (5) What are the resources, funding or external support for the project?…”

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“…Looking at the global educational and industry demands, our curricula augmented with several courses relating to renewable energy, energy conversion, green energy manufacturing and sustainability. As a result of this enhancement we had an afflux of capstone project topics in the green/renewable energy area reaching a maximum this year when all of our capstone topics are related directly to green and sustainable energy sources or sustainable manufacturing [3][4][5][6]. As a consequence, our curricula moved towards educating students in controversial topics such as global warming, energy security, air pollution, ecological damage, reducing the carbon footprint and green-house emissions.…”

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“…Students are actively involved in self-directed learning to find sustainable solutions to design problems, and to recognize that they are part of a global community [4]. These projects also served as a platform for course learning modules to enhance existing curricula as well as to develop new courses that ultimately led to a new minor in Green and Sustainable Energy in our department.…”

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The Contribution of Capstone Projects in Green/Renewable Energy Areas to Growth of the Engineering Curriculum in Global Sustainable Development

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Ertekin

Chiou

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Irina Ciobanescu Husanu, Ph. D. is Assistant Clinical Professor with Drexel University, Engineering Technology program. Her area of expertise is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in microcombustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. His tremendous research experience in manufacturing includes environmentally conscious manufacturing, Internet based robotics, and Web based quality. In the past years, he has been involved in sustainable manufacturing for maximizing energy and material recovery while minimizing environmental impact. Dr. Michael G. Mauk, Drexel UniversityMichael Mauk is Assistant Professor in Drexel University's Engineering Technology program.c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Contribution of Capstone Projects in Green / Renewable Energy Areas to Growth of the Engineering Curriculum in Global Sustainable Development AbstractThe current global considerations regarding sustainable energy use and generation combined with the need of a well-rounded and skilled workforce able to serve a global sustainable industry leads inevitably to new trends and strategic areas in engineering education fields. Our task as educators in the engineering realm is to prepare students to be more effective in a global context as well as to be able to respond to today's challenges, giving them the essential competencies for global engineering work. The paper aims to present the contribution of several capstone projects developed in the past five years by our students to the growth of the engineering technology curricula in our university. The main aspects presented are related to the integrative approach in green energy harvesting and sustainability, with a clear assessment of student-l...

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Assessing General Creativity and Creative Engineering Design in First Year Engineering Students

Cited by 154 publications

References 27 publications

Implementation of a Design Spine for a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Implementation of a Design Spine for a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Assessment and Implementation of an Interdisciplinary General Education Minor

The Contribution of Capstone Projects in Green/Renewable Energy Areas to Growth of the Engineering Curriculum in Global Sustainable Development

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