Innovative tools for engineering creativity development

Abstract

Solving problems and searching for new effective ways and tools are considered to be engineer’s main goals nowadays. An engineering activity is getting more innovative, requiring strong abilities and well developed skills of coming up with new ideas and bringing them to life rather than having definite and limited amount of professional knowledge. In this regard analysis, convergent and divergent thinking, inventing, creating are vitally important qualities for an engineering expert. In his job today, an engineer works in a multidisciplinary environment which significantly influences his approaches, methods and tools. For example, a mechanical engineer does not deal only with mechanisms, as the main advances come from IT and electronics. This means the designing approaches are changing according to the needs of the modern market and together with emerging technologies.