• 공학교육연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2012

There have been various educational approaches to foster students' creativity in engineering colleges, but little has been conducted based on empirical study results of students' perception on creativity education. This study aims to explore the students' perception on creativity in engineering such as characteristics of creative engineers, the level of individual or group creativity and creative education in engineering colleges. According to the survey results of 538 respondents, engineering students considered three factors such as 'innovative driven', 'eager for high intellectuality', 'activity expression' as characteristics of creative engineer. They evaluated both of individual or group creativity levels as subnormal. They perceived the importance of creativity education, but were not satisfied with current creativity educational experiences. They pointed out 'limited supports of nation or organization', 'credit system decided by the paper-based exam', 'non-systematized creativity classes' as impending factors for creativity in engineering education. Students suggested 'securing the budget for practice and field participation', 'changing of perception on creativity education itself', 'developing the creativity classes combined with engineering subjects' as fostering factors in creativity education. This studdy suggests several implications of educational approaches to creativity education in engineering colleges.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to explore characteristics of engineering students' everyday creativity compared with those of undergraduate students. For this, we investigated whether there were differences in undergraduates' everyday creativity according to majors, gender and grade. Everyday creativity can be defined as thinking and activities producing useful and suitable personal products, and to solve problems in a new and unique ways. Thus everyday creativity is reported to be universal ability creative people can express in their everyday life. Eight hundred and fifty seven students from three universities in three Korean regions responded to Everyday Creativity Scale. Our findings show that firstly, there were significant differences in undergraduates' everyday creativity by majors and gender. Whereas there were no differences in the same survey by grade. Engineering students obtained significantly lower score of everyday creativity as well as its sub-scales. Also, there were significant differences in everyday creativity's sub-factors by gender. Based on these findings, practical implications for creativity education are discussed with particular attention to learner's individual variables.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2016

This study was carried out to investigate how grade level and experiences when taking courses affect the creativity of engineering students in a Korean college. The sample group consisted of 372 engineering students of which 49.5% were first graders, 15.6% second graders, 22.6% third graders, and 12.4% fourth graders. They conducted self-report measures on a domain-general and domain-specific view of creativity. The engineering creativity test, developed by Kang and Yune (2015), is based on the domain-specific view of creativity and consists of four sub-factors: creative attitude, knowledge research, interest in engineering, and team work ability. The domain-general creativity test consists of three sub-factors. Analysis of the results led to the following conclusions: First, we found significant differences in engineering creativity between students depending on experiences in taking courses and tests; and, second, we discovered significant differences in integrative creativity among students depending on experiences in taking courses and tests, and/or grade level. These conclusions suggest that we should develop and apply appropriate strategies to enhance creativity in engineering education.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.45-57
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• 2023

The aim of this paper is to find directions for improving creativity education in a research-oriented college of engineering. As a method, we interviewed 17 professors and 7 students from a research-oriented college of engineering in Seoul, South Korea and learned about their experiences related to creativity education. As a result, we were able to identify 6 topics on which the interviewees' opinions vary. We found that most professors we interviewed did not think creativity was important in their classrooms as they thought passing on engineering knowledge was more important in foundational engineering education, and creativity is hard to define. However, their evaluation method in class showed that they valued creativity, and were trying to teach creativity with little success. Also, while the professors thought they needed more communication with the students to improve creativity education, the students thought they needed more autonomy. In consideration of our findings, we proposed 4 directions for improving creativity education in a research-oriented college of engineering. First, shift perspective on the foundational education for engineering. Second, connect basic curriculum and extracurricular activities. Third, actively connect basic curriculum with the industry. Finally, provide appropriate facilities that enable different types of interactions between professors and students.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.50-59
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• 2015

Recently, it has been emphasized that more girls should be able to contribute to society in the engineering field. However, there is little research for understanding the psychological characteristics of female engineering students. We first must understand their capabilities in order to take advantage of the strengths of female engineering college students. Based on this understanding, it is necessary to provide future educational interventions for them. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the gender differences in creativity in engineering education. Additionally, we wanted to know whether the differences were domain-specific or domain-general differences. For this, we targeted 351 engineering students in Busan and Daegu. An integrated creativity test and engineering creativity test were carried out. It was found that female engineering students had lower scores on both the integrated creativity and engineering creativity tests than male students. These results suggest that we should develop and apply appropriate strategies to enhance the creativity of female students in engineering education.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.3-11
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• 2022

The effects and factors of the creativity education program on the creative self-efficacy of engineering college students were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, the creative self-efficacy of students who took the creativity education program was improved, and the effect was statistically significant. The learning contents factors affecting the improvement of creative self-efficacy was 'creativity development attribute and creative attitude' and the learning activity factor was 'taking theoretical lectures' about creativity.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.16-35
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• 2017

이 연구에서는 공과대학생들의 공학 창의성이 성별, 학년, 공학교육인증 참여 여부와의 관련성을 살펴보고자 하였다. 구체적인 연구목적을 살펴보면 첫째, Rasch 분석을 사용하여 연구에 사용된 공학 창의성 검사도구의 타당도와 신뢰도를 확인하였으며, 둘째, 삼원분산분석을 사용하여 성별, 학년별, 공학교육인증 참여 유부별로 공학 창의성의 수준을 비교하였다. 셋째, 공학 창의성 요소간의 상관관계를 확인하였으며, 넷째, 잠재집단분석(poLCA)을 활용하여 공학 창의성에 따라 구분되는 잠재집단들을 규명하고, 규명된 잠재집단과 성별, 학년별, 공학교육인증 참여가 관계가 있는지 살펴보았다. 연구에는 2098명의 공과대학 재학생이 참여하였으며, 4개의 하위 구인으로 이루어진 공학 창의성 검사도구를 활용하여 자료를 수집하였다. 라쉬 분석결과 공학 창의성 검사도구의 타당성과 신뢰성을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 삼원분산분석 결과 공학창의성은 성별에 따라 유의미한 차이를 나타냈으며, 학년의 경우 창의적 인지 외의 모든 구인에서 유의미한 차이가 나타났으며, 공학교육인증제 프로그램은 공학 창의성의 선택 여부는 유의미한 차이가 타나나지 않았다. 상관관계 분석 결과 공학 창의성 요소들은 상호 통계적으로 유의미한 관계가 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 마지막으로 공학 창의성 요소를 근거로 잠재집단을 확인한 결과, 공과대학 학생들에게는 3가지의 공학 창의성 잠재집단이 발견되었으며, 1학년과 여학생일수록 공학 창의성이 가장 낮은 잠재집단에 소속될 확률이 높았다. 이러한 연구 결과를 바탕으로 공과대학생들의 창의성 교육에 대해 논의해보고자 한다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2020

Recently, the acquisition of teamwork skills as well as creativity has been a special challenge to engineering students. Also it became crucial for engineering educators to help them enhance effectively these skills. Thus, there has been a good deal of domestic and overseas research on teamwork skills and creativity. However, to date, there is relatively few studies analyzing two variables' relationships. This research aims to explore relationships between engineering students' teamwork skills and everyday creativity, and to suggest educational implications for future research and educational programs. For this purpose, this study was conducted with 450 engineering students at two universities in Korea, and their teamwork skills and everyday creativity have been measured. Our findings show that firstly, there were significant differences in teamwork skills by grade. Secondly, there were significant correlations among subcategories' variables of teamwork skills and everyday creativity. Thirdly, 35% of teamwork skills were explained by everyday creativity. Based on these findings, the theoretical and practical implications are discussed with particular attention to education for promoting teamwork skills.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.13-23
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• 2015

This paper attempts to take an in-depth study of the importance of teams and their creativity according to changes of recent design paradigm in engineering and to draw conclusions of the sub-domains and their element extraction. For this purpose, theoretical consideration was reviewed to present the definition of creativity and its sub-domains and elements. Besides, the two steps of expert validation test were conducted to extract the definition of creativity and its sub-domains and elements. The team creativity is defined as a team ability to come up with fresh and useful ideas and to lead them to get meaningful results through cooperative interactions among team members to solve problems given to them based on each member's creativity. Totally, 4 subs -domains and 16 sub-elements were extracted to get to know their influence on the team creativity. This includes a team size, characteristics of team members, and a team structure in team organization domain. To evaluate team atmosphere, elements such as sensibility, fellowship, teamwork, reliability, autonomy and open minded feature are included. In the team activity domain, strategies for solving problems, activities for divergent thinking, activities for convergence thinking and team interaction are included. Also, the sub-domain for team management includes a task, process and conflict management.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제20권43호
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• pp.333-355
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• 1997

The future society is forcasted the creativity society. The employee creativity and the leadership are more important than any other factor of the organization. This research would review the antecedent study of the superordinate leadership and the employee creativity. The major purpose of this study are theorically and empirically to identify the relationship between the superordinate leadership and the employee creativity. However, this would suggest the direction of the employee creativity development for both the management and the scholars.