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Engineering Creativity
Articles appearing in various Engineering magazines in support of the Eogogics Engineering Creativity Celebration (March-April 2013)
Product Design and Development Magazine: Unleashing Engineering Creativity Product Design and Development Magazine: Kano Model Design News Magazine: The Engineering Creativity Challenge Product Design and Development Magazine: Nine Screens Technique Product Design and Development Magazine: Concept Fans
Eogogics Workshops on Engineering Creativity
If you are charged with designing new products or processes, or improving existing ones, you’d be interested in our workshops on Unleashing Engineering Creativity. They can help your organization achieve breakthrough results instead of the incremental improvements that are the norm. These workshops, ranging in duration from two to three days, are customized to each client’s engineering environment and are available worldwide.
Take the Torrance Test of Creativity
Here’s a quick way to assess your creativity based on one of the Torrance tests of creative thinking. Don’t read anything below the tin can yet. Just focus on the tin can below and in one minute list as many uses for it as you can. When you are done making your list, read on.
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e-Learning – Unleashing Engineering Creativity
In this exciting 35-minute video, Joe shows you how to overcome self-imposed creativity obstacles and apply TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, to address real-life engineering challenges. You will also get a feel for our onsite workshops on Unleashing Engineering Creativity. It’s a real course, not ‘sales pitch’, and it’s aimed at engineers, business strategists, business development specialists, and others charged with creating innovative products, processes, or offerings (or improving the existing ones).
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Excerpt from the Book
Chapter 1 of Unleashing Engineering Creativity, textbook for the Eogogics Unleashing Engineering Creativity workshop, which is available for presentation worldwide. (You can buy the book separately as well.) The workshop builds on the book with advanced creativity techniques, real world examples, interesting case studies, and stimulating exercises to ensure that the participants thoroughly understand the techniques taught in the course and can apply them on the job.
Unleashing Engineering Creativity
Creativity. We deem it essential for business and technical success, yet we are often puzzled about how to find it, how to empower our people to exercise it, and how to apply it. Do we need creativity for solving engineering or business problems, designing completely new products, improving existing products, or developing and improving processes? Are we born with creativity, or do we need to develop our creativity skills?
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Obstacles to Creativity …. And How to Overcome Them!
Creativity obstacles can emerge as the result of structured thinking patterns, timidity, a fear of failure, resource myopia, fear of the unknown, overconfidence, personal and physiological factors, and not knowing how to be creative. This article outlines and recommends approaches for overcoming creativity obstacles.
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Unleashing Engineering Creativity: Biomimicry, Nine Screens, and TRIZ
When faced with creative challenges, many engineers rely on brainstorming as their primary creativity tool. Developed in the 1950s by Alex Osborn (who used it as a tool for developing advertising campaigns), brainstorming is a good approach. But it’s not the only or best approach, and it often fails to stimulate creativity in a meaningful way.
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PDF of the Unleashing Engineering Creativity Webcast
PDF of the 43-slide Power Point presentation used in the 1-hour course on Unleashing Engineering Creativity Using TRIZ webcast live on April 25, 2013. An e-learning version of this webcast is also available on this page.
TRIZ: How to Stimulate Engineering Creativity Using TRIZ
TRIZ is an acronym for teoriza rezhinija izobretatalskih zadach, or the theory of inventive problem solving. The TRIZ technique was developed by Genrich Altshuller, a Russian navy officer who worked in the Soviet patent office. After reviewing 40,000 patents, Altshuller reached the following conclusions: Inventions and innovations follow common patterns that cut across industry and technology boundaries.
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Tutorial: Unleashing Engineering Creativity: The TRIZ Technique
Based on the TRIZ chapter of the book Unleashing Engineering Creativity by Joe Berk, a Principal Member of the Eogogics Engineering Faculty. This lavishly illustrated book is the textbook component of the Eogogics workshop of the same name that’s available for presentation worldwide. (The book can also be purchased separately.) For more on the book or the workshop, please visit www.eogogics.com/create
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Unleashing Engineering Creativity: The Kano Model
How do we decide which features to include in new products? That’s a great question. If we miss important features or include unnecessary features, customers will reject our products. If we include unexpected and exciting features, though, we can delight customers and jump ahead of the competition.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) Revolution: Are You Ready?
Powered by the expansion of connectivity fueled by IPv6, the Internet is quickly morphing from a ‘network of computers’ into a ‘network of things’, and this technology is developing at a much faster pace than other such technologies of the past. Smart phones, cars, homes, buildings, wearable computing devices, unseen but ubiquitous sensors embedded into appliances, equipment and infrastructure, and many other “things” (including living things such as cattle and wildlife) are all getting linked up into a vast and pervasive Internet of Things (IoT)! It’s a disruptive technology that — though largely invisible to consumers — will have profound impact on our everyday lives, how businesses operate, and on the world economy as a whole (multi-trillion dollars) — all in as little as five to 10 years.
Related resources:
Article: Distributed Computing for IoT: Data Management in a Fog Computing Environment
Course: Internet of Things Workshop
Research publications on IoT (look for ‘IoT’ in our Store‘s ‘Search Product’ field)
Nearly every industry vertical stands to be transformed by the coming IoT revolution. The IoT technology is creating enormous opportunities for new services as well as more efficient delivery of existing services. The rapid pace at which this technology is evolving is also giving rise to major privacy/security risks for individuals, institutions, and public infrastructure — creating new vulnerabilities and giving rise to not-as-yet-thought-of attack modalities, including those of remotely engineered death and destruction. Yet, many businesses and government agencies wonder if this is all passing hype — which it is not — and many do not know how the IoT should fit into their organizational strategy.
So is your organization positioned correctly to benefit from this coming Internet of Things (IoT) revolution? Starting with this issue of the Eogogics Quarterly, we will be publishing a series of articles, courses, and research publications to help our readers better understand the underlying technologies, business and societal impact, potential, and market landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT). Featured in this issue are an article on distributed computing for the IoT and an update on the new courses and research publications on IoT that have been recently added to our product line-up. Are there IoT issues you’re interested in that are not covered by our courses and research publications? Call us (+1 703 345-4375) or drop us a line at [email protected]. We may be able to help.