Download or read book A Theoretical Framework of Creative Risk taking Behaviour in Engineering Design Education written by Aoran Peng and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the engineering discipline, creativity and innovation are important tools for solving emerging problems. This creativity is needed because societal problems are constantly evolving such as resource depletion, clean water, and food insecurities. Innovative solutions are said to lie on a continuum from incremental, where a designer adapts or builds on previous solutions, to radical innovation, where designers produce ideas that are paradigm-shifting in that they are drastically different from existing solutions. While both types of innovation are often met with uneasiness by engineers, radical innovations are often the most difficult for engineers to develop and support through design decision-making. This is problematic because these are also the types of ideas needed to move the needle on these grand societal challenges. Several potential factors may limit engineers' radical idea development. For example, engineers have been found to be risk averse, which may limit their willingness to support these ideas throughout the design process. Team composition of individual attributes can also influence decision-making outcomes. This is especially important since teamwork has been widely integrated throughout both engineering education and industry. Finally, environmental factors can also influence student creative decision-making, which is problematic from an educational standpoint because research has shown that engineering curriculums rarely value creativity or teach healthy risk-taking. As such, it is important to note that not all radical ideas are good ideas. Four types of decisions can be made on these types of radical solutions: (1) select a radical idea that has a high potential for future success (hit), (2) not selecting a radical idea that has high potential for future success (miss, Type I error), (3) selecting a radical idea that has little potential for future success (false alarm, Type II error), (4) not selecting a radical idea that has little potential for future success (correct rejection. However, how individual and team factors affect the accuracy of decision-making for radical ideas has yet to be investigated. In addition, it is also not yet known if the current engineering education setup, in terms of the course level, curriculum, and instructor is successful in establishing an environment that promotes creativity and innovation. This environment is essential in influencing creative outputs such as their accuracy in decision-making towards radical innovation. Given this, the goal of this dissertation was to develop a theoretical framework for the impact of individual, team, and educational environments on the effectiveness of creative risk-taking behavior in engineering education. More specifically, the dissertation seeks to address the following goals: (1) investigate the impact of preferences for the creativity of an evaluator on the effectiveness of decision-making; (2) identify if personality and preferences for the creativity of team members influence team-level decision making in terms of the effectiveness of decision making in simulated engineering student teams; (3) determine the role of course level, curriculum, and instructor on influencing student perception of creative climate. The results from this dissertation will contribute to the theoretical understanding of engineering students' creative risk-taking behavior at multiple levels and will provide support for future work aimed at modifying engineering classrooms to foster creativity and innovation.
Download or read book Creative Engineering Design Assessment written by Christine Charyton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-14 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creative Engineering Design Assessment or CEDA is a newly developed tool to assess creativity specific to engineering design which is vital for innovation. The revised CEDA assesses usefulness in addition to originality. Both originality and usefulness are key constructs in creativity but are primarily essential and emphasized ever more in engineering design. Since the preliminary research was presented to the National Science Foundation, further reliability and validity has been developed and established. The CEDA is different from other general creativity measures as it demonstrates discriminant validity with the Creative Personality Scale, Creative Temperament Scale, and the Cognitive Risk Tolerance Scale, and has demonstrated convergent validity with the Purdue Creativity Test and the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test- Rotations. It focuses on engineering specific measures, measuring engineering creativity and spatial skills. The aim of this book is to disseminate the CEDA tool for use in engineering educational programs, industry, NASA and the military. Creative Engineering Design Assessment (CEDA) Background, Directions, Manual, Scoring Guide and Uses discusses and outlines the need for creativity in our global economy and in engineering design and provides the CEDA tool in effort to achieve this.
Download or read book Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design written by Andrew E. Samuel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make and test projects are used as introductory design experiences in almost every engineering educational institution world wide. However, the educational benefits and costs associated with these projects have been seldom examined. Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design provides a serious examination of the design of make and test projects and their associated educational values. A taxonomy is provided for the design of make and test projects as well as a catalogue of technical information about unconventional engineering materials and energy sources. Case studies are included based on the author’s experience of supervising make and test projects for over twenty-five years. The book is aimed at the engineering educator and all those planning and conducting make and test projects. Up until now, this topic has been dealt with informally. Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design is the first book that formalises this important aspect of early learning in engineering design. It will be an invaluable teaching tool and resource for educators in engineering design.
Download or read book Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Creative Concept Selection in Engineering Design written by Christine Toh and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing need for companies to generate innovative solutions and products in order to stay competitive in todays constantly shifting engineering and technology landscape. Rapid changes in customer needs, emerging technologies, and new market opportunities demand quick and effective product design processes that can provide a competitive advantage. The focus on improving the effectiveness of the design process has led to renewed attention on studying and improving creativity training in engineering education. Since creative solutions contribute the most value to the design process, design educators are recognizing that students graduating engineering programs need to be trained for creativity prior to entering the workforce. While a large focus of creativity training in engineering education has been on helping students develop creative ideas, researchers have argued that the availability of creative ideas is a necessary but insufficient condition for innovation. This is because creative ideas are often filtered out during the design process because of peoples inadvertent bias against creativity. In other words, concept selection can now be seen as the gatekeeper of creativity. In addition, informal selection methods, often used in engineering industry, are subject to decision-making biases such as ownership bias and risk aversion. However, few studies have explored the impact of these factors on creative concept selection in engineering design education leaving it unclear exactly how these factors impact the design training of the next generation of design engineers. Therefore, the objective of this dissertation was to develop a theoretical understanding of the individual factors that impact creative concept selection processes in engineering design education. This was achieved through empirical studies with 427 engineering design students, spanning 3 research objectives: (1) an exploration of the decision-making process in informal student team concept selection practices, (2) a detailed investigation of the cognitive biases and personal attributes that influence team decision-making and creativity, and (3) identification of the underlying constructs that influence individual preferences for creative concepts and its influence on engineering student behavior. The results of this research contribute fundamental knowledge on the factors and elements that constitute preference for creativity in engineering student decision-making, allowing researchers to develop tools and methods that encourage creativity, improve innovation effectiveness, and increase the competitive advantage of the design process.
Download or read book Risk Taking in International Politics written by Rose McDermott and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the way leaders deal with risk in making foreign policy decisions
Download or read book Action Research in Teaching and Learning written by Lin Norton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and down-to-earth, the second edition of Action Research in Teaching and Learning is an ideal introduction to the subject, offering a distinctive blend of the theoretical and the practical, grounded firmly in the global higher education landscape. Written in an accessible style to build confidence, it provides easily adaptable, practical frameworks, guidelines and advice on research practice within a higher education context. The reader is guided through each stage of the action research process, from engaging with the critical theory, to the practical applications with the ultimate goal of providing a research study which is publishable. Supplemented by useful pedagogical research tools and exemplars of both qualitative and quantitative action research studies, this new edition features chapters engaging with teaching excellence and analysing qualitative and quantitative research, additions to the resources section and a new preface focusing more explicitly on the ever-growing number of part-time academics. Action Research in Teaching and Learning combines a theoretical understanding of the scholarly literature with practical applications and is an essential, critical read for any individual teaching or undertaking action research.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Management Theory written by Eric H. Kessler and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In discussing a management topic, scholars, educators, practitioners, and the media often toss out the name of a theorist (Taylor, Simon, Weber) or make a sideways reference to a particular theory (bureaucracy, total quality management, groupthink) and move on, as if assuming their audience possesses the necessary background to appreciate and integrate the reference. This is often far from the case. Individuals are frequently forced to seek out a hodgepodge of sources varying in quality and presentation to provide an overview of a particular idea. This work is designed to serve as a core reference for anyone interested in the essentials of contemporary management theory. Drawing together a team of international scholars, it examines the global landscape of the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses to thoughtfully apply them. In addition to interpretations of long-established theories, it also offers essays on cutting-edge research as one might find in a handbook. And, like an unabridged dictionary, it provides concise, to-the-point definitions of key concepts, ideas, schools, and figures. Features and Benefits: Two volumes containing over 280 signed entries provide users with the most authoritative and thorough reference resources available on management theory, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage. Standardized presentation format, organized into categories based on validity and importance, structures entries so that readers can assess the fundamentals, evolution, and impact of theories. To ease navigation between and among related entries, a Reader’s Guide groups entries thematically and each entry is followed by Cross-References. In the electronic version, the Reader’s Guide combines with the Cross-References and a detailed Index to provide robust search-and-browse capabilities. An appendix with a Chronology of Management Theory allows readers to easily chart directions and trends in thought and theory from early times to the present. An appendix with Central Management Insights allows readers to easily understand, compare, and apply major theoretical messages of the field. Suggestions for Further Reading at the end of each entry guide readers to sources for more detailed research and discussion. Key themes include: Nature of Management Managing People, Personality, and Perception Managing Motivation Managing Interactions Managing Groups Managing Organizations Managing Environments Strategic Management Human Resources Management International Management and Diversity Managerial Decision Making, Ethics, and Creativity Management Education, Research, and Consulting Management of Operations, Quality, and Information Systems Management of Entrepreneurship Management of Learning and Change Management of Technology and Innovation Management and Leadership Management and Social / Environmental Issues PLUS: Appendix of Chronology of Management Theory PLUS: Appendix of Central Management Insights
Download or read book Design Studies and Intelligence Engineering written by L.C. Jain and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technologies applied in design studies vary from basic theories to more application-based systems, and intelligence engineering technologies – such as computer-aided industrial design, human factor design, and greenhouse design – play a significant role in design science. Intelligence engineering technologies encompass both theoretical and application perspectives, such as computational technologies, sensing technologies, and video detection. Intelligence engineering is multidisciplinary in nature, promoting cooperation, exchange and discussion between organizations and researchers from diverse fields. This book presents the proceedings of DSIE2021, the 2021 International Symposium on Design Studies and Intelligence Engineering, held in Hangzhou, China, on 27 & 28 November 2021. This annual conference invites renowned experts from around the world to speak on their specialist topics, providing a platform for many professionals and researchers from industry and academia to exchange and discuss recent advances in the field of design studies and intelligence engineering. The 210 submissions received were rigorously reviewed, and each of the 50 papers presented here was selected based on scores from three or four referees. Papers cover a very wide range of topics, from the design of a pneumatic soft finger with two joints, and the emotion of texture, to the design evaluation of a health management terminal for the elderly, and a multi-robot planning algorithm with quad tree map division for obstacles of irregular shape. Providing a varied overview of recent developments in design and intelligence engineering, this book will be of interest to researchers and all those working in the field.
Download or read book Papers in ITJEMAST 11 12 2020 written by and published by International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies publishes a wide spectrum of research and technical articles as well as reviews, experiments, experiences, modelings, simulations, designs, and innovations from engineering, sciences, life sciences, and related disciplines as well as interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary/multidisciplinary subjects. Original work is required. Article submitted must not be under consideration of other publishers for publications.
Download or read book Participatory Action Research written by Robin McTaggart and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors tell their stories of action research in their own ways, and indeed, give expression to their own cultural positioning as they draw upon their extensive experience in the field and the academy. They write in terms of their own experience, but with a collective as well as individual purpose. Contributors describe the history of participatory action research, and identify its interpretations in the diverse cultural contexts of Colombia, India, Austria, Australia, Venezuela, USA, England, Spain, Thailand, and New Caledonia. Drawing on the fields of nursing, education, community development, land reform, popular education, agriculture, and mass media, the authors describe the development of democratic research practice in quite different institutional and cultural contexts.Teachers, social workers, managers, nurses, adult educators, and agricultural extension and community development workers will all find this collection of writings from key participatory action research practitioners useful and informative.
Download or read book Creativity in Engineering written by David H Cropley and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity is like an iceberg - the resulting new idea, or novel solution is only 10% of the effort. The other 90% is the complex interplay of thinking skills and strategies, personal and motivational properties that activate these skills and strategies, and the social and organizational factors of the environment that influence the creative process. Creativity in Engineering focuses on the Process, Person, Product, and Place to understand when and why creativity happens in the engineering environment and how it can be further encouraged. Special Features: Applies findings in creativity research to the engineering arena Defines engineering creativity and differentiates it from innovation Discusses personality and motivational factors that impact creativity Clarifies the role of creativity in the design process Details the impact of thinking skills and strategies in creativity Identifies the role the organization and environment plays in encouraging creativity Discusses the 4P's of Creativity: Person, Product, Process, and Place Provides tactics and tools that will help users foster creativity in engineering environments Identifies how creativity results in innovative new solutions to problems Applies creativity research and knowledge to the engineering space
Download or read book Educational Design Research written by Jan Van den Akker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of design research has been gaining momentum over the last five years, particularly in educational studies. As papers and articles have grown in number, definition of the domain is now beginning to standardise. This book fulfils a growing need by providing a synthesised assessment of the use of development research in education. It looks at four main elements: background information including origins, definitions of development research, description of applications and benefits and risks associated with studies of this kind how the approach can serve the design of learning environments and educational technology quality assurance - how to safeguard academic rigor while conducting design and development studies a synthesis and overview of the topic along with relevant reflections.
Download or read book The Social Psychology of Creativity written by Teresa M. Amabile and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas presented in this book have been incubating for over 25 years. I was in the first grade, I believe, when the ideas that eventually developed into this social psychology of creativity first began to germinate. The occasion was art class, a weekly Friday afternoon event during which we were given small reproductions of the great masterworks and asked to copy them on notepaper using the standard set of eight Crayola® crayons. I had left kindergarten the year before with encour agement from the teacher about developing my potential for artistic creativity. During these Friday afternoon exercises, however, I developed nothing but frus tration. Somehow, Da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi" looked wrong after I'd fin ished with it. I wondered where that promised creativity had gone. I began to believe then that the restrictions placed on my artistic endeavors contributed to my loss of interest and spontaneity in art. When, as a social psy chologist, I began to study intrinsic motivation, it seemed to me that this moti vation to do something for its own sake was the ingredient that had been missing in those strictly regimented art classes. It seemed that intrinsic motivation, as defined by social psychologists, might be essential to creativity. My research pro gram since then has given considerable support to that notion. As a result, the social psychology of creativity presented in this book gives prominence to social variables that affect motivational orientation.
Download or read book Design Theory written by Pascal Le Masson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook presents the core of recent advances in design theory and its implications for design methods and design organization. Providing a unified perspective on different design methods and approaches, from the most classic (systematic design) to the most advanced (C-K theory), it offers a unique and integrated presentation of traditional and contemporary theories in the field. Examining the principles of each theory, this guide utilizes numerous real life industrial applications, with clear links to engineering design, industrial design, management, economics, psychology and creativity. Containing a section of exams with detailed answers, it is useful for courses in design theory, engineering design and advanced innovation management. "Students and professors, practitioners and researchers in diverse disciplines, interested in design, will find in this book a rich and vital source for studying fundamental design methods and tools as well as the most advanced design theories that work in practice". Professor Yoram Reich, Tel Aviv University, Editor-in-Chief, Research In Engineering Design. "Twenty years of research in design theory and engineering have shown that training in creative design is indeed possible and offers remarkably operational methods - this book is indispensable for all leaders and practitioners who wish to strengthen theinnovation capacity of their company." Pascal Daloz, Executive Vice President, Dassault Systèmes
Download or read book Social Science Research written by Anol Bhattacherjee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.
Download or read book Design Thinking in Education written by Christoph Meinel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education needs new ways to prepare individuals and societies for the multitude of changing challenges in the twenty-first century. In today's world—characterized by digitization, increasing speed, and complexity—design thinking has established itself as a powerful approach to human-centered innovation that can help address complicated problems and guide change in all areas of life. Design thinking formats not only teach skills that benefit people as they expand their "toolbox," but also create affective and cognitive outcomes. This book includes experiences, approaches, and reflections on design thinking in education from different perspectives of renowned design thinking experts from the network of the Hasso Plattner Institute and its School of Design Thinking. Using real-world examples, the book provides insights into requirements and protocols that design thinking practitioners can apply to transform their academic or professional ecosystem. It will be of interest for readers who work in or are interested in a wide variety of educational contexts.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
