Making The Strange Familiar: Creativity And The Future Of Engineering Education

Abstract

Several other educators have offered definitions for creativity as it applies to engineering. It has been described as "the awareness, observation, imagination, conceptualization, and rearrangement of existing elements to generate new ideas" Goldsmith described it as "The production and disclosure of a new fact, law, relationship, device or product, process, or system based generally on available knowledge but not following directly, easily, simply, or even by usual logical processes from the guiding information at hand" Pereira (1999) defined creativity as "the capacity to perform mental work that leads to an outcome both novel and applicable.

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