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Features

The first textbook on Inventive Engineering, the science of inventing
Learning Inventive Engineering will give students a huge competitive advantage
Prepares students for a transformation from regular students to successful engineers and inventors
Presents unique transdisciplinary knowledge with roots in engineering, cognitive psychology, heuristics, and the social sciences
Written by an engineer who is also an academic teacher and inventor with several patents
Summary

Inventive Engineering is an emerging engineering science focused on the conceptual designing processes whereby creative designs are developed. Its core concepts are too often unknown and even surprising, but they are also feasible and can be learned, leading to potentially patentable designs. Inventive engineers have a tremendous competitive advantage over other engineers, because they have gone beyond practical and analytical intelligence and have learned how to be creative.

Inventive Engineering: Knowledge and Skills for Creative Engineers has its roots in engineering, psychology, history, systems engineering, political science, and computer science. It presents a body of knowledge integrated from these fields. It provides:

Background knowledge, which will motivate and prepare students for learning inventive engineering
A general outline of Inventive Engineering, with an understanding of the conceptual designing process and its various stages
Guidance on several inventive designing methods set in their cultural context to encourage students to develop practical skills for their use.



Table of Contents

Why Learn Inventive Engineering: Ten Reasons
Ten Reasons Why You Should Become an Inventive Engineer
Summing Up

Lessons from the Past
Why Learn from the Renaissance?
Renaissance Emergence
Renaissance Man
Da Vinci's Seven Principles
The Medici Effect

Lessons from Modern Science
Political Science
Psychology

Basic Concepts
Introduction
System
Data, Information, and Knowledge
Transdisciplinarity
Emergent Behavior
Knowledge Convergence
Synthesis
Synesthesia
Attributes: Design Descriptors
Design Representation Space
Design Requirements and Constraints
Engineering Design
Problem, Designing Problem, Wicked Problem

Science of Inventive Engineering
Introduction
Engineering Designing: Five Definitions
Problem Identification
Problem Formulation
Design Concept Evaluation
Design Concept Selection

Morphological Analysis
Creator
History
Assumptions
Procedure
Example
Potential Applications
Black and White

Brainstorming
Creator
History
Assumptions
Procedure
Tool Box
Seven Simple Activities
Seven Heuristics
Session Organization
Example
Black and White

Synectics
Creator
History
Assumptions
Psychological States
Key Activities
Psychological Mechanisms
Procedure

Session Organization
Example
Black and White

TRIZ
Creator
History
Knowledge: The Key to Understanding TRIZ
Basic Concepts
Assumptions
Procedure and Example
Patterns of Evolution
Black and White

Bioinspiration
Why Learn Bioinspiration?
What Is Bioinspiration?
What Is the History of Bioinspiration?
Visual Inspiration
Conceptual Inspiration
Computational Inspiration
References