Creativity in Civil Engineering Design

Through a series of exercises students' observation skills, problem solving skills and lateral thinking abilities will be developed. Students will be encouraged and actively engaged in developing creative design solutions, to assigned problems and to critically evaluate these solutions. Throughout the process students will be introduced to techniques and tools of problem solving and they will be encouraged to use these in all their design work. Observation, visualization and communication are central to the innovation cycle. Students will be introduced to visual (sketching) and physical representation (prototyping/model making). Verbal communication of ideas will be developed through in-class presentation of solutions.