Assessing general Creativity and Creative engineering Design in first year engineering students

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-156

  Charyton, Christine ^a   Merrill, John A ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Engineering Design; Innovation

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; STUDENTS;

CREATIVE ENGINEERING; CREATIVITY; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENGINEERING FACULTY; FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING; INTER-RATER RELIABILITIES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 67249147752     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01013.x     Document Type: Article

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