Do engineering creativity/innovation courses impact engineering innovativeness?

Daniel Ferguson; Wayne Li; Jonathan Weaver; John Ochs; Kathryn Jablokow; Cristi Bell-Huff; Wendy Newstetter

doi:10.1109/FIE.2017.8190628

Do engineering creativity/innovation courses impact engineering innovativeness?

Daniel Ferguson, Wayne Li, Jonathan Weaver, John Ochs, Kathryn Jablokow, Cristi Bell-Huff, Wendy Newstetter

Engineering Division (Great Valley)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

5 Scopus citations

Abstract

Through five years of previous NSF-sponsored research working with engineering education programs and major U.S. Corporations, we have identified the most important characteristics of engineering innovators (across and in each phase of the innovation process) and validated a new instrument (ABAKAS = Assessment of Behaviors, Attitudes, Knowledge, Attributes, and Skills) to assess them. In our context, an innovation is a product, process, or concept that has been discovered, developed, and implemented in a sustainable manner in a community. The innovation process is therefore defined to have a beginning (discovery), a middle (development) and a completion phase (implementation). Claims on how to create innovations or be more innovative are as popular as diet plans, but these claims are not connected by evidence to engineering student learning experiences and outcomes. Courses with titles like 'Innovation and Creativity for Engineers' have not provided assessment evidence that these courses positively impact or enable the characteristics that we now know comprise engineering innovativeness.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	FIE 2017 - Frontiers in Education, Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509059195
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2017.8190628
State	Published - Dec 12 2017
Event	47th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2017 - Indianapolis, United States Duration: Oct 18 2017 → Oct 21 2017

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
Volume	2017-October
ISSN (Print)	1539-4565

Other

Other	47th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Indianapolis
Period	10/18/17 → 10/21/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Education
Computer Science Applications

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10.1109/FIE.2017.8190628

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Ferguson, D., Li, W., Weaver, J., Ochs, J., Jablokow, K., Bell-Huff, C., & Newstetter, W. (2017). Do engineering creativity/innovation courses impact engineering innovativeness? In FIE 2017 - Frontiers in Education, Conference Proceedings (pp. 1-5). (Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE; Vol. 2017-October). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2017.8190628

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Ferguson, D, Li, W, Weaver, J, Ochs, J, Jablokow, K, Bell-Huff, C & Newstetter, W 2017, Do engineering creativity/innovation courses impact engineering innovativeness? in FIE 2017 - Frontiers in Education, Conference Proceedings. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE, vol. 2017-October, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1-5, 47th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2017, Indianapolis, United States, 10/18/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2017.8190628

Do engineering creativity/innovation courses impact engineering innovativeness? / Ferguson, Daniel; Li, Wayne; Weaver, Jonathan et al.
FIE 2017 - Frontiers in Education, Conference Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 1-5 (Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE; Vol. 2017-October).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution