Creativity in engineering : novel solutions to complex problems / / David H. Cropley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788046803321
• Autore: Cropley David H.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : Academic Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-12-800318-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Collana: Explorations in Creativity Research
• Disciplina: 153.35
• Soggetti: Creative ability; Creative ability in technology; Creative thinking
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Creativity in Engineering; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; The Approach of This Book; Why is This Book Different?; Outline of Chapters; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Sputnik Shock; The Link between Creativity and Engineering; What is Creativity?; The Definition of Creativity; The Four Ps of Creativity; The Fifth P; Paradoxes of Creativity; Summary; 2 The Importance of Creativity in Engineering; The Economics of Creativity; Engineering and Engineers; Change; The Need for Creativity; Creative Engineering Problem SolvingThe Oil Crisis of 1973; Oil Crisis-Solution Pathways; Oil Crisis-Technology Push and Market Pull; Case Study: Creativity and Innovation in Aerospace; 3 Phases: Creativity and the Design Process; Problem Solving and Creativity; Knowledge and Problem Solving; Problem Recognition; Finding Good Problems; Problem Awareness; The Effect of the Problem on Creativity; Idea Generation; Idea Evaluation; Solution Validation; General Models of Creative Problem Solving; Other Models of Problem Solving; The Extended Phase Model; Engineering Problem Solving: Design; Engineering Design as CreativityEngineering Divergent Thinking; Constraints and Design; Freedom versus Constraint; Engineering Models of Design; 4 Product: The Creativity of Things; What are ; Products?; External Indicators of Creative Products; The Fundamental Criteria of the Creativity of Products; Further Criteria of the Creativity of Products; The Hierarchical Organization of Creative Products; Situation versus Domain Relevance of Creative Products; Product Creativity as a System; Latent Functional Creativity; Measuring the Creativity of Products; Consensual Assessment; Rating Scales; The Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale (CSDS)Industrial Design and Engineering; Summary; 5 Process: Generating Creative Ideas; Unsystematic Creativity; Effortless Creativity; Blind Combinations; Luck; Intuition; Systematic Production of Novelty; Generating Variability; Divergent Thinking; Other Concepts of Novelty-Generating Thinking; Thinking Tactics That Generate Variability; Constructing Remote Associates; Building Unusual Categories; Building Broad Networks; Accommodating Rather than Assimilating; Using Creativity-Facilitating Cognitive Styles; Meta-Cognition; Avoiding the Wrong Approach BarrierMeasuring Divergent Thinking; Scoring Divergent-Thinking Tests; A Creativity Quotient?; Other Tests of Creative Thinking; The Test of Creative Thinking-Drawing Production; Tests Based on Problem Solving; Convergent Thinking: The Prepared Mind; Intuition and Convergent Thinking; The Prepared Mind; The Problem of Too Much Knowledge; The Unprepared Mind; Knowledge and Creativity; Knowledge as the Source of Ideas; Knowledge Defines What is Creative; Knowledge Guides and Shapes Creativity; The Interaction Between Divergent and Convergent Thinking; Generating and Exploring Variability
• Sommario/riassunto: A comprehensive overview of how creativity is dependent upon a person, product, process, and place and how those 4Ps of creativity are critical in applied settings-like engineering-for novel, effective, and practical solutions.

Existe-t-il une doctrine Menger? : aux origines de la pensée économique autrichienne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910131865503321
• Autore: Gilles Campagnolo (dir.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Presses universitaires de Provence, 2011; [Place of publication not identified], : Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2011
• ISBN: 2-8218-2758-X; 2-8218-1756-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Collana: Epistáeme Existe-t-il une doctrine Menger?
• Soggetti: Economics - Austria; Austrian school of economics; Business & Economics; Economic Theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Sommario/riassunto: Dans la "Vienne 1900", Carl Menger (1840-1921), le fondateur de l'École autrichienne d'économie politique, a renouvelé la conception de l'économie (valeur, capital, monnaie), mais aussi la théorie de la connaissance et la philosophie de la nature humaine. Appuyées sur des archives récemment exhumées au Japon et aux États-Unis, les contributions rassemblées ici présentent des sources de sa pensée (Aristote, les Lumières, entre autres), certains aspects de sa théorie et de sa méthodologie qui débordent le champ économique, et leur impact sur quelques œuvres postérieures (chez Max Weber, Karl Polanyi et Eugen v. Böhm-Bavverk). Ces concepts constituèrent-ils alors une doctrine, une Mengerlehre? La question se pose aujourd'hui car ils peuvent servir une tâche d'actualité, puisque la crise économique actuelle s'accompagne d'une crise de la pensée par maints aspects analogue à celle connue alors. Il est donc urgent de les retrouver. International (France, Autriche, Italie) et pluridisciplinaire (philosophie, économie, sciences politiques), le projet coordonné par Gilles ; Campagnolo, responsable français de l'édition des oeuvres de Menger, a débouché sur ce colloque tenu à l'université de Provence qui a fait date. Le lecteur trouvera également la seule traduction française intégrale de l'article « On the Origin of Money » (initialement paru dans The Economic journal en 1892).