TEACHING AND LEARNING CREATIVITY IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

TEACHING AND LEARNING CREATIVITY IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

A. Swahn, S. Svahn (2009).  TEACHING AND LEARNING CREATIVITY IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 11.

The development of engineering education must in the future take into consideration a broadening of the students’ awareness of the true Space/Time nature of our world. By accepting and using the world-view that Einstein defined we have been able to achieve an enormous scientific and technological development during the past century. In the field of human resources development, however, we still have only to a small extent utilized this new science and we mostly continue to live and work as if the traditional Space+Time reality is the only one existing. In order to achieve sustainable development and true progress in our projects and find real solutions to our problems, we must increasingly make use of the untapped creative resources, which can be generated from the Space/Time reality. Accordingly, we present here new tools and procedures for generating creative actions in engineering work as well as a basic Operating System for all human actions. We also make suggestions for how Creativity learning can be introduced in the CDIO syllabus and how it can be taught as a basic common subject in all engineering education and training. 

Authors (New): 
Anders Lennart Swahn
Staffan Svahn
Pages: 
11
Affiliations: 
NvisioN – Creativity in Action, Italy
Keywords: 
Creativity
Creativity learning
Defining creativity
Basic course
ReAction
CreAction
Year: 
2009
Reference: 
CREATIVITY – A Science-based Outlook on Life and Work – Anders Lennart Swahn and Staffan Svahn – AuthorHouse – September 2008 : 
The CDIO Syllabus – A Statement of Goals for Undergraduate Engineering Education – Edward F. Crawley – Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology – January 2001 pp 4 - 9: 
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