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Workshop: Stimulating Creativity and Innovation
Thu 9:00 am - 2C
Larry Richards
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Creativity is an essential component in engineering design. Different types of design problems require varying degrees of creativity, but innovation is a fundamental aspect of engineering practice. The innovator has many valuable and transferable skills that can be used in engineering, science, business, or in fact, any other profession. In this workshop, these principles of everyday creativity will be described and illustrated, both by example and hands-on activities involving workshop participants. As Peter Lissiman says “The first rule of innovation is pleasure.”