Anderson, M. L., & Anderson, K. E., & Jensen, D. D. (2019, June), Creativity Exercises and Design Methods to Enhance Innovation in Engineering Students  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32566

\bibitem{asee_peer_32566}
  Anderson, M. L., \& Anderson, K. E., \& Jensen, D. D. (2019, June), \emph{Creativity Exercises and Design Methods to Enhance Innovation in Engineering Students}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32566

Michael Lawrence Anderson P.E., Karen Elaine Anderson, and Daniel D. Jensen.  "Creativity Exercises and Design Methods to Enhance Innovation in Engineering Students".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32566 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_32566}
  Michael Lawrence Anderson P.E., Karen Elaine Anderson, and Daniel D. Jensen.
  "Creativity Exercises and Design Methods to Enhance Innovation in Engineering Students".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32566 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

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AB  - This evidence-based practice paper describes the use of creativity practice exercises intended to enhance student creativity in a capstone design program. Engineering programs, in general, and capstone design programs, in particular, that seek innovative conceptual solutions to complex problems would benefit from techniques to develop and assess student creativity. Therefore, a study was performed to evaluate two such techniques. Over the first two years of the study, capstone design students in the United States Air Force Academy’s Department of Engineering Mechanics were each assigned to one of 14 teams which received various learning experiences (treatments) intended to enhance individual creativity and design project innovation. Twelve of the 14 teams (n = 70) received an innovative engineering design curriculum while the control teams (n = 23) did not. Six teams (n = 37) experienced seven weekly creativity exercises across the fall semester, provided by Destination Imagination, while four teams (n = 56) did not. It was expected that the exercises would improve Creativity Index scores in students across the study as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) Figural Test. The Creativity Index scores of the students were analyzed using an independent sample t-test to determine if any differences could be detected. Results after the first two years are positive, indicating that students that participated in the creativity-enhancing treatments showed higher improvements in Creativity Index scores compared to the controls. However, the statistical significance of these findings are not strong, presumably due to the small sample size. Therefore, the research will continue in subsequent years. In addition, evaluation of the design teams’ concepts by experienced engineering design faculty indicated that the teams that participated in the creativity exercises exhibited greater innovation in their design process versus the control. Finally, students reported that the exercises are fun and help them expand their way of thinking to consider unexpected solutions to a diverse array of challenges. 
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