A study on the effective lesson plan of creative engineering design education for the creativity improvement of the students of engineering college

Abstract

This study aims to prompt the plan for the creativity improvement through the creative engineering design subjects lesson as the target of engineering certification deepening program, and it was confirmed that 69% students have changed by the survey through the results that 60% students who have negative thinking about creativity before the classes were improved through 'Self-development training program for a positive mindset' and selected design tasks in the beginning of semester. The tasks which have effects on the creativity increase were in the order of brainstorming, egg drop, solar car, and the cause of decrease of creativity were in the order of mismatched team, Negative thinking, Lack of computer literacy. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.