CCLI Phase II: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Systematic Ideation Curriculum Effectiveness Investigation & Deployment to Enhance Design Learning

工程-其他(59)设计是工程的本质，创造力是有效设计的必备技能。设计通常始于创意的产生，通常是头脑风暴；然而，头脑风暴在作为本科生创造力的主要工具时往往达不到要求，因为它依赖于设计师向内寻找灵感的能力，而且它要求设计师在该领域拥有经验。在这个项目中，我们正在研究三种方法，以确定它们对提高工科本科生思维能力的影响。第一种方法是TRIZ，这是一种系统的方法，用于产生创新设计，以解决看似难以解决的问题。TRIZ最早是在俄罗斯开发的，基于对数千项专利的分析，这些专利展示了来自不同学科的众多解决方案模式。在这个项目中探索的第二种思维方法是手绘草图，第三种方法是技术驱动的设计日记。这三种方法被单独或结合地提供给合作机构各种以设计为导向的课程的学生，并正在分析由此产生的设计解决方案的创造力。通过本研究开发的方法具有改革本科工程设计教育的潜力。该项目的成果正在向工程教育界广泛传播，以便在全国各地的本科工程课程中纳入创造力。

Engineering - Other (59)Design is the essence of engineering and creativity is a requisite skill for effective design. Design often begins with idea generation, typically brainstorming; however, brainstorming often falls short when used as the main vehicle for creativity with undergraduate students because it relies on the designers' abilities to look inward for inspiration and it requires designers to have experience in the field. In this project, three methods are being examined to determine their impact on improving the ideation performance of undergraduate engineering students. The first method is TRIZ, which is a systematic approach for the generation of innovative designs to seemingly intractable problems. TRIZ was first developed in Russia and is based on the analysis of thousands of patents that illustrate numerous solution patterns from diverse disciplines. The second method of ideation being explored in this project is freehand sketching and the third method is technology-enabled design journaling. These three methods are being provided, either alone or in combination, to students in various design-oriented courses at the partnering institutions and the resulting design solutions are being analyzed for creativity. The methods developed through this research have the potential to transform undergraduate engineering design education. Results from the project are being broadly disseminated to the engineering education community to inform the inclusion of creativity among undergraduate engineering curricula across the country.