Location
Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
Event Website
https://event.ceri2020.exordo.com/
Start Date
28-8-2020 3:00 PM
End Date
28-8-2020 4:15 PM
Description
The concept of creativity being only associated with writers, painters, and artistic professions is outdated. The future engineer must embrace maths, art and creativity to unlock innovative solutions. Traditional engineering courses with an emphasis predominately on maths and science can produce graduates who are constrained in developing design solutions without creativity to unlock innovative solutions. This paper describes a short course introduced in the School of Engineering at NUIGalway in 2018 to expose students to creative thinking research and principles and engage in various forms of creative expression (photography, painting and essay writing) to articulate their response to a set task to develop their lateral thinking. The paper discusses the proposition that including creative exercises in the undergraduate engineering education has many benefits including developing awareness of visually perceptive ways of thinking, increasing self-awareness and creative confidence and an appreciation of the arts and design disciplines.
Recommended Citation
Goggins, Jamie; Fuente, Marta; and Madden, Eamonn, "Art in Engineering: Evoking a Creative Response from Engineering Students and More" (2020). Civil Engineering Research in Ireland 2020. 7.
https://sword.cit.ie/ceri/2020/16/7
Included in
Civil Engineering Commons, Construction Engineering and Management Commons, Environmental Engineering Commons, Geotechnical Engineering Commons, Hydraulic Engineering Commons, Structural Engineering Commons, Transportation Engineering Commons
Art in Engineering: Evoking a Creative Response from Engineering Students and More
Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
The concept of creativity being only associated with writers, painters, and artistic professions is outdated. The future engineer must embrace maths, art and creativity to unlock innovative solutions. Traditional engineering courses with an emphasis predominately on maths and science can produce graduates who are constrained in developing design solutions without creativity to unlock innovative solutions. This paper describes a short course introduced in the School of Engineering at NUIGalway in 2018 to expose students to creative thinking research and principles and engage in various forms of creative expression (photography, painting and essay writing) to articulate their response to a set task to develop their lateral thinking. The paper discusses the proposition that including creative exercises in the undergraduate engineering education has many benefits including developing awareness of visually perceptive ways of thinking, increasing self-awareness and creative confidence and an appreciation of the arts and design disciplines.
https://sword.cit.ie/ceri/2020/16/7
