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CEIE 894 - Design and Inventive Engineering

Credits: 3
Not Repeatable for Credit
Offered by Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

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: This is transdisciplinary course focused on creativity in engineering and science. 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.

Schedule Type: SEM
Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0
When Offered: Fall

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CEIE 894 - Design and Inventive Engineering