Creativity in Engineering: Novel Solutions to Complex Problems - Explorations in Creativity Research

Marc Notes: David H. Cropley discusses the 4P's of creativity - person, product, process, and place - to provide tactics and tools that will help foster creativity in engineering environments. He identifies how creativity results in innovative new solutions to problems and applies creativity research and knowledge to the engineering space. Table of Contents:1. Processes for Generating Creative Ideas 2. Creativity in the Wider Context of Innovation and Problem-solving 3. Personal Factors and Personality Creativity 4. Creativity and the Role of the Environment 5. Measuring Creativity in People, Products and Processes and Workplaces 6. Creativity Training 7. Embedding Creativity in Engineering Education Contributor Bio:  Cropley, David H David H. Cropley is Deputy Director of the Defence and Systems Institute, University of South Australia, and a former officer in the UK's Royal Navy. He is the author, with Arthur Cropley, of Fostering Creativity: A Diagnostic Approach for Higher Education and Organisations.