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ISBN 10: 0128002255
ISBN 13: 9780128002254 
Author:  David H. Cropley

Creativity in Engineering: Novel Solutions to Complex Problems focuses on creativity research, including what we know about those who are creative, what products are creative, the best processes for fostering creativity, and the ways the best environments for creativity can be applied to the engineering realm.

The book provides practical advice for fostering creativity in the inception of new products, product design, and in generating novel, effective, and practical solutions to technological problems.

The text defines what creativity is, and isn’t, in applied settings, also discussing the role it plays in the future of technological advancement

Creativity in Engineering Novel Solutions to Complex Problems 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

• The Sputnik Shock
• The Link between Creativity and Engineering
• What is Creativity?
• The Definition of Creativity
• The Four Ps of Creativity
• The Fifth P
• Paradoxes of Creativity
• Summary

Chapter 2. The Importance of Creativity in Engineering

• The Economics of Creativity
• Engineering and Engineers
• Change
• The Need for Creativity
• Creative Engineering Problem Solving
• The Oil Crisis of 1973
• Case Study: Creativity and Innovation in Aerospace

Chapter 3. Phases: Creativity and the Design Process

• Problem Solving and Creativity
• Knowledge and Problem Solving
• Problem Recognition
• Idea Generation
• Idea Evaluation
• Solution Validation
• General Models of Creative Problem Solving
• Engineering Problem Solving: Design
• Engineering Models of Design

Chapter 4. Product: The Creativity of Things

• What are Products?
• The Fundamental Criteria of the Creativity of Products
• The Hierarchical Organization of Creative Products
• Product Creativity as a System
• Latent Functional Creativity
• Measuring the Creativity of Products
• Industrial Design and Engineering
• Summary

Chapter 5. Process: Generating Creative Ideas

• Unsystematic Creativity
• Systematic Production of Novelty
• Thinking Tactics That Generate Variability
• Using Creativity-Facilitating Cognitive Styles
• Meta-Cognition
• Measuring Divergent Thinking
• Convergent Thinking: The Prepared Mind
• Knowledge and Creativity
• The Interaction Between Divergent and Convergent Thinking
• Models of Convergent and Divergent Interaction
• Summary

Chapter 6. Person: The Who of Creativity

• The Search for the Creative Personality
• Creativity and Mental Illness
• Studying Personality and Creativity: Methods
• Studying Creativity and Personality: Results
• Personality-Facilitating Traits
• The Dynamics of Personality and Creativity
• The Paradoxical Personality
• A Dynamic System
• Diagnosing the Creativity of People
• Psychological Dimensions of Creative Potential
• Summary

Chapter 7. Press: Creativity and the Role of the Environment

• The Social Environment
• The Social Definition of What is Creative
• Motivation: The Social Nature of the Creative Impulse
• The Institutional Environment and Creativity
• Creativity and Gender
• Groups and Creativity
• Assessing the Organizational Climate
• Summary

Chapter 8. Innovation: Exploiting Creativity

• Defining Innovation
• Competition and Innovation
• Understanding Innovation
• The Innovation Phase Assessment Instrument (IPAI)
• Summary

Chapter 9. Creativity Training

• Can Creativity Be Taught?
• The Effectiveness of Creativity Training
• Why Do We Need to Teach Creativity?
• What Abilities Need to Be Trained?
• Domain-Specificity and Creativity Training
• General Approaches to Creativity Training
• Fostering Creativity in Individual People
• Specific Creativity-Facilitating Techniques

Chapter 10. Embedding Creativity in Engineering Education

• The Problem
• Stakeholder Perspectives
• Benefits of Creativity in Education
• Fixing the Problem
• Designing a Curriculum for Engineering Creativity
• Summary

Concluding Remarks

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