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2011-2012 University Catalog

CEIE 894 - Design and Inventive Engineering

Credits: 3 (NR)
Topics include Fundamentals: successful intelligence and creative intelligence, creative class, the Medici Effect, the Renaissance Man and Da Vinci’s Seven Principles, engineering creativity; Design Engineering: system designing and architecting, designing as search, evolutionary designing, constraint search, constructive induction, Axiomatic and Inferential Design Theories; Inventive Engineering: Brainstorming, Synectics, Morphological Analysis, TRIZ, Visual Thinking, Inventive Design in Practice; Project Presentations.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Status

Notes: It is a transdisciplinary course focused on creativity in engineering and science and it is open to all graduate students in the Volgenau School of IT and Engineering, graduate students from other schools are encouraged to register with the instructor’s permission.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
When Offered: Fall