Engineering creativity support for future research and development

Dușe Dan Maniu () and Dușe Carmen Sonia ()
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Dușe Carmen Sonia: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, 2017, vol. 2, issue 1, 371-382

Abstract: The human abilities to use nature’s materials and force to their benefit, by means of engineering applications has made the human development possible. Multiple factors have influenced the human development, sometimes accelerating it, other times slowing it down to annulation. Although it is known and accepted that creativity’s role is essential in engineering performances, the neglecting of creativity in engineering education is not understood. The graduates from Anglo-Saxon countries and Europe reduced creative potential and the lack of necessary abilities concerning the solving of the companies’ problems have been emphasized by specialists in education and governmental reports reinforces the need to creativity in engineering education. The diagram of engineering education presented in the paper defines in conceptual terms the way engineering study programs can be developed with an adequate creative composition. The evaluation of the students’ creativity level at the master and doctoral levels of engineering programs belonging to two European universities has shown the need for improving creativity solutions. The development of creative abilities can be realized by formulating creative objectives which are specific to learning: creative evaluating topics, open projects, answering topics, originality of solutions and the use of projects method.

Keywords: creativity; engineering; design; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/cplbu-2017-0049

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