Promoting Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Education
Promoting Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Education
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DOI：
10.1037/aca0000008
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发表时间：
2015-05-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Cropley, David H.
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作者：
Cropley, David H.
为什么创造力对工程和工程教育很重要？创造力和创新的价值在于它们能够促进开发新颖和有效的技术解决方案，以解决因变化而产生的问题。然而，创造力、创新和工程之间存在脱节。教育计划过分关注狭隘而深入的技术规范，课程中很少或根本没有培养创造性思维和行为能力的空间。除非通过对工程教育的全面改革来解决这种脱节，否则我们就有可能培养出装备不良的工程师，无法解决社会日益迅速变化所引发的问题。
Why is creativity important to engineering and engineering education? The value that creativity and innovation offers lies in their ability to facilitate the development of novel and effective technological solutions to problems stimulated by change. There is, however, a disconnect between creativity, innovation, and engineering. Educational programs focus excessively on narrow and deep technical specifications, with little or no room in the curriculum for developing the ability to think and act creatively. Unless this disconnect is addressed through holistic changes to engineering education, we risk producing engineers who are ill-equipped to tackle the problems sparked by increasingly rapid change in society.