(686) ASSESSING STUDENTS' CREATIVITY COMPETENCIES FOR INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DESIGNS

摘要

In the new degrees of the Bologna framework, creativity competencies have been included among theskills needed by graduate students in engineering. Indeed, creativity is an important feature that allowsengineers to provide new innovative designs. Therefore, engineers with creativity capabilities are ableto produce more competitive products, open new opportunities and make our industries moreprofitable. However, the problem that engineering faculties have to face now is how to teach a studentto be more creative. Teaching creativity has been studied from the pedagogical point of view since themiddle of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, the implementation throughout the different courses ofengineering degrees is not clear. The engineering student's perception is that, in the best cases,creativity is relegated to the final degree project. They think that their assessment is focused on theirtechnical knowledge and their skills in using well-known engineering techniques, but new creativeideas to solve open-ended problems are not considered in their curricula. In this paper, a case study ispresented encouraging and assessing creativity in engineering students with application to industrialdesign. A survey of the students' perception of the process was also performed.