Creativity and the future of engineering education: making the strange familiar

Universities are increasingly expected to provide more opportunities that foster and nurture creativity in engineering students. It is an ongoing critical issue, in the sense that it helps, meets the expectation for professional engineers, as well ad completes the intellectual development of individ...

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Main Authors:	Ahmad, Zuraida, Halim, Zahurin
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/35553/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/35553/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/35553/1/Zuraida.pdf

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spelling	iium-355532014-02-10T17:00:40Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/35553/ Creativity and the future of engineering education: making the strange familiar Ahmad, Zuraida Halim, Zahurin TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Universities are increasingly expected to provide more opportunities that foster and nurture creativity in engineering students. It is an ongoing critical issue, in the sense that it helps, meets the expectation for professional engineers, as well ad completes the intellectual development of individuals. The importance of implementing creativity education in the lecture however has not been fully recognised and implemented. Therefore. this paper is trying to examines the meaning of creativity and the technique (teaching pedagogy) that can be implemented in teaching it to engineering students without burdening them with extra workload. In doing so, the authors are reporting the trial technique of nurturing creativity in the classroom during the lecture and offer strategies to make creativity a part of engineering curriculum. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/35553/1/Zuraida.pdf Ahmad, Zuraida and Halim, Zahurin (2013) Creativity and the future of engineering education: making the strange familiar. In: International Conference on Engineering Education 2013, 22nd-25th Dec. 2013, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. http://www.icee.feiic.org/index.php/conference/papers-status
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description	Universities are increasingly expected to provide more opportunities that foster and nurture creativity in engineering students. It is an ongoing critical issue, in the sense that it helps, meets the expectation for professional engineers, as well ad completes the intellectual development of individuals. The importance of implementing creativity education in the lecture however has not been fully recognised and implemented. Therefore. this paper is trying to examines the meaning of creativity and the technique (teaching pedagogy) that can be implemented in teaching it to engineering students without burdening them with extra workload. In doing so, the authors are reporting the trial technique of nurturing creativity in the classroom during the lecture and offer strategies to make creativity a part of engineering curriculum.
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title	Creativity and the future of engineering education: making the strange familiar
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