An Empirical Study of Industrial Engineering and Management Curriculum Reform in Fostering Students' Creativity

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Chi-Kuang; Jiang, Bernard C.; Hsu, Kuang-Yiao
Titel	An Empirical Study of Industrial Engineering and Management Curriculum Reform in Fostering Students' Creativity
Quelle	In: European Journal of Engineering Education, 30 (2005) 2, S.191-202 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0304-3797
Schlagwörter	Curriculum Development; Engineering Education; Required Courses; Creativity; Business Communication; Problem Solving; Educational Change; Scientific Methodology; Followup Studies; Pretests Posttests; Creative Development; Instructional Effectiveness; Participant Satisfaction; Foreign Countries; Taiwan; Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Ingenieurausbildung; Pflichtkurs; Kreativität; Unternehmenskommunikation; Problemlösen; Bildungsreform; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Unterrichtserfolg; Ausland
Abstract	The objective of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of a creativity-fostering program in industrial engineering and management (IE&M) curriculum reform. Fostering creativity in students has become a crucial issue in industrial engineering education. In a survey of previous studies, we found few on IE&M curriculum reform. In particular, no study has dealt directly with fostering students' creativity. In this study, we propose an IE&M curriculum reform program. The core of this program is intended to enhance students' creative problem solving ability. Based on this concept, three required courses were developed: industrial communication, creative problem solving, and scientific research methodology. To investigate the effectiveness of this curriculum reform program, we conducted a two-year follow-up study. One hundred seventy-seven IE&M undergraduates from Yuan-Ze University participated this study, and Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) were used to measure changes in their creativity. The results showed that the students, after completing this reformed curriculum program, had significantly improved their creativity. (Contains 1 figure and 8 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10