Yilmaz, S., & Jablokow, K., & Daly, S. R., & Silk, E. M., & Berg, M. N. (2014, June), Investigating Impacts on the Ideation Flexibility of Engineers  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--20711

\bibitem{asee_peer_20711}
  Yilmaz, S., \& Jablokow, K., \& Daly, S. R., \& Silk, E. M., \& Berg, M. N. (2014, June), \emph{Investigating Impacts on the Ideation Flexibility of Engineers}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--20711

Seda Yilmaz, Kathryn Jablokow, Shanna R. Daly, Eli M. Silk, and Meisha Nicole Berg.  "Investigating Impacts on the Ideation Flexibility of Engineers".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/20711 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_20711}
  Seda Yilmaz, Kathryn Jablokow, Shanna R. Daly, Eli M. Silk, and Meisha Nicole Berg.
  "Investigating Impacts on the Ideation Flexibility of Engineers".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/20711 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

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AB  -            Investigating Impacts on the Ideation Flexibility of EngineersIdeation is a critical skill for all engineers as they explore problem spaces and develop bothshort-term and long-term solutions. Engineers can benefit from understanding their preferredideation approaches (based on their cognitive style, as defined by Kirton’s Adaption-Innovationtheory) and the situations in which those approaches are effective. Engineers can also benefitfrom developing proficiency in a diversity of approaches in order to ideate effectively in avariety of problem situations. However, the current engineering education paradigm does notprovide distinct opportunities for engineering students to understand their natural approaches toideation or to learn how to deliberately approach idea generation in other ways.We define ideation flexibility as the ability to ideate along a continuum of incremental to radicalways depending on the needs of the problem. Based on previous research, we expect three keyfactors to influence ideation flexibility: 1) problem framing (the way a problem and itsconstraints are “set”); 2) the use of ideation tools (strategies that guide and inspire solution spaceexploration, e.g., Design Heuristics); and 3) ideation teaming (interactions with others duringideation).In this paper, we focus on the development of a sustainable foundation for our investigation ofthese three factors. Currently, we have collected data from pre-engineering and engineeringundergraduate students at multiple levels in their educational programs using experimentalstudies to determine how each factor impacts students’ natural ideation tendencies. We presentour vision for this foundation and illustrate some of our preliminary findings through casestudies. Our long-term project goals include creating guidelines and methods that will helpengineers increase their ideation flexibility by learning how to deliberately approach ideationdifferently.
AU  - Seda Yilmaz
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AU  - Shanna R. Daly
AU  - Eli M. Silk
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
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