Creative Education and Its Importance to Industry
摘要
This chapter starts by defining creativity as the ability to produce original ideas and items. It also includes the combining of existing work and objects in different ways for new purposes. Creativity involves higher levels of thinking like the synthesis level (where one creates new ideas) and is important to all areas of education. Every field of study has problems to solve and relies on creative ideas for possible solutions. Combining creativity with education is creative education. It encourages students to be open-minded and creative. Engineering education is very important for providing trained and innovative engineers to work in industry. Engineers along with other STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates are needed to creatively design items, processes, and services to satisfy human needs. Industrial engineers use a design process (a problem-solving model) to solve problems for meeting the demands of society and to compete globally in areas like space exploration. This chapter provides details about creativity and creative education. It also describes various applications of creative education to industry.