Eight Fields of MATCEMIB Help Students to Generate More Ideas

Engineering Creativity: The Influence of General Knowledge and Thinking Heuristics

“…As shown in Table 1, this did not occur. Moreover, although the results of the experimental groups from Germany that combined students of different study years, which are discussed in Belski et al (2016b), were aligned with the results for the experimental groups from the other four countries as presented in Belski et al (2015), the influence of general knowledge versus discipline knowledge on idea generation was not fully clear. In order to establish the influence of experience and knowledge on creative performance more accurately, it was necessary to analyse idea-generation performance of users with practical experience and education that significantly exceeded that of the first-year students from universities in Australia, Czech Republic, Finland and Russia.…”

“…Recent studies reported on the positive influence of systematised Su-Field on students' ability to generate diverse ideas for a knowledge-rich, open-ended engineering problem (how to clean lime deposits from inside water pipes) (Belski et al 2014(Belski et al , 2015(Belski et al , 2016b. It was discovered that the first-year students from universities in Australia, Czech Republic, Finland and Russia who were simply exposed to the names of the eight fields of MATCEMIB during idea generation produced at least two times more ideas than the students from a control group that were not shown any prompts.…”

“…The experiment conducted with university students in Germany, which involved undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students, supported the findings of the above-mentioned experiments with the first-year students. It also recorded a boost in both a number of distinct ideas and breadth of these ideas for the students who were shown the names of the eight fields of MATCEMIB (Belski et al 2016b).…”

“…The results of the above-mentioned idea-generation experiments showed significant differences in the numbers and the breadth of ideas generated by the control groups of students from all five countries. Table 1 depicts the information on the composition of the control groups, semester of study at university, an average number (mean) of independent ideas generated by students of a particular group and the breadth of these ideas (Belski et al 2015(Belski et al , 2016b. The breadth of ideas was calculated as a sum of eight terms, each equal to a fraction of students from the control group that proposed ideas that were assigned by the assessors to each field of MATCEMIB (Belski et al 2015).…”

On the Efficiency of TRIZ Application for Process Intensification in Process Engineering

“…In order to assess the variety of the ideas proposed in the workshops, every idea was assigned to the most appropriate knowledge domain. For this purpose, both problems and generated ideas were related to the eight engineering MATCEMIB fields and their interactions [20] applied in TRIZ: Mechanical, Acoustic, Thermal, Chemical, Electric, Magnetic, Intermolecular, Biological. For example, a uniformity problem caused by the surface effects of solid particles can be assigned to the intermolecular field, and a corresponding solution idea based on ultrasound treatment -to the acoustic field.…”