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2009-2010 University Catalog

CEIE 511 - Introduction to Design and Inventive Engineering

Credits: 3
Engineering creativity and its roots; DaVinci Principles, the Medici Effect, creative environment, engineering method, AI and evolutionary computation in design, collaborative and Internet-based design; evaluation in design; human problem solving; inventive design methods such as constraint search, morphological analysis, brainstroming, Synectics, and TRIZ. Requires group projects using problems provided by industry.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week
3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week
0