TEACHING AND LEARNING CREATIVITY IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

The development of engineering education must in the future take into consideration a broadening of the students’ awareness of the true Space/Time nature of our world. By accepting and using the world-view that Einstein defined we have been able to achieve an enormous scientific and technological development during the past century. In the field of human resources development, however, we still have only to a small extent utilized this new science and we mostly continue to live and work as if the traditional Space+Time reality is the only one existing. In order to achieve sustainable development and true progress in our projects and find real solutions to our problems, we must increasingly make use of the untapped creative resources, which can be generated from the Space/Time reality. Accordingly, we present here new tools and procedures for generating creative actions in engineering work as well as a basic Operating System for all human actions. We also make suggestions for how Creativity learning can be introduced in the CDIO syllabus and how it can be taught as a basic common subject in all engineering education and training.