1st Edition

Inventive Engineering Knowledge and Skills for Creative Engineers

By Tomasz Arciszewski Copyright 2016
    418 Pages 94 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    418 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Inventive Engineering is an emerging engineering science focused on the conceptual designing processes whereby creative, or inventive, 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 readers 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

    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

    Biography

    Tomasz Arciszewski is a professor emeritus at George Mason University. He is a global scholar with experience that spans five continents and 24 countries. His life mission is to inspire and educate engineers in becoming more creative, thus enabling them to serve humanity in an expanded capacity, not only as analysts but also as inventors. Dr. Arciszewski has published more than 175 research and technical articles, including 57 journal papers and 29 book chapters, and coauthored or authored books. He earned his degrees from the Warsaw University of Technology. Before joining George Mason University in 1993, he was a member of the faculty at Wayne State University for 10 years.

    "The approaches, even though wide ranging and disparate, come together like tools in a toolbox to make the book a unified work with one message."

    Civil Engineering magazine

    "This extremely well written book encourages engineering students to undergo a paradigm shift-away from simply specializing in analytical problem solving to leveraging a balanced body of knowledge rooted in various domains in order as an inventive engineer to contribute to society in long lasting meaningful ways."
    —Cornelia Huellstrunk, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

    "Professor Tomasz Arciszewski has been actively defining and quantifying skills and qualifications that will enable engineers to be successful in the 21st century. His latest book brings together thoughts and experiences of a very successful teacher, researcher and creative thinker. The book is rooted in innovative engineering and science, and teaches related aspects of systems engineering, cognitive psychology, political science and history."
    —Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    "If you can imagine it, you can invent it. Arciszewski tells you how."
    —J.P. Mohsen, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA