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Aspects of a study of creative thinking and knowledge application
An empirical study in the form of survey was conducted investigating design students’ cognitive processes. The aim of this study was to identify specific knowledge for application by students classified as creative in product design. We specifically collected data from China and the UK, representing the Western and Eastern cultures. The results identified six knowledge items, e.g. knowledge of user trails, ergonomics, which were applied at a high frequency in FYDP by creative students, measured by the Metacognition Awareness Inventory (MAI), in both China and the UK. Moreover, we found that Chinese participants with higher creative thinking ability may tend to apply more knowledge of aesthetics, organisation, marketing, and skills to operate relevant machines in a design process, whereas the UK’s participants with higher creative thinking ability would be more likely to apply knowledge of client needs and information processing to a larger degree
Design education: collaboration and cross-disciplinarity [front matter]
The 18th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE) was held at the University of Aalborg on the 8th and 9th September 2016. The conference was hosted by the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, in close collaboration with the Design Education Special Interest Group (DESIG) of the Design Society, and the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED). The E&PDE conference was initiated in 1999 in the United Kingdom and was consolidated as an international conference in 2004; alternately taking place in the UK and abroad. Its objective is to facilitate the bringing together of people from within education and industry who are interested in sharing expertise on the implementation and analysis of contemporary and developing methodologies in engineering and design education. It provides educators and researchers from product development, engineering and industrial design, together with industry and government representatives, with a platform for discussion on topical educational issues in design education and its future direction