Creativity and Engineering

Abstract

Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of creativity, and how it applies to engineering activities, including reliability engineering.

Key Points

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss creativity in engineering.

Topics include:

• What is creativity?


• Book: Serious Creativity


• Creative challenge in recruiting interview


• Kids are inherently creative


• Odyssey of the Mind


• TRIZ


• Lateral Thinking


• How our brains put things in patterns, or ruts


• Exercises to think outside of patterns


• Using handwriting to unlock potential


• Deliberately do new things, breaking the pattern


• Deliberate techniques to enhance creative skills


• Divergent thinking vs convergent thinking


• Examples of creativity in reliability projects


• Subject Matter Experts can have blind spots


• Limitations of Brainstorming


• Discoveries sometime happen by accident, but you have to be willing to see


• Your mind needs to be open to think differently and see new things


• Asking questions


• Book: The Artist Way


• Book: Leonardo da Vinci

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.

Show Notes

This podcast refers to three books:

Serious Creativity, by Edward de Bono, published by Harper Business, 1992

The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, publised by Tarcher Perigree, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson, published by Simon and Schuster, 2017

The podcast referes to an illustration from Effective FMEAs, by Carl Carlson:

Divergent v sConvergent Thinking

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