Creativity for Engineers

1. Introduction. 1.1. The need for creativity in engineering. 1.2. Creativity and innovation history. 1.3. Engineering history. 1.4. Creativity-related facts and figures. 1.5. Terms and definitions. 1.6. Creativity myths, observations, and the role of innovation in organizations. 1.7. Useful information on creativity and innovation. 1.8. Scope of the book -- 2. Engineering : an introduction. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. The difference between science and engineering. 2.3. Engineering today and engineering disciplines. 2.4. Engineering design process. 2.5. The technological team. 2.6. The needs, functions, and qualities of an engineer. 2.7. Engineering manager's functions and qualities. 2.8. The ethical and legal factors -- 3. Famous engineering inventions, inventors, and inventing. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Famous engineering inventions. 3.3. Famous engineering inventors. 3.4. Inventing procedure. 3.5. Inventors' characteristics, motives, and marital status. 3.6. Obstacles and pitfalls of inventors -- 4. Creativity in organizations. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Factors for the decline in corporate creativity, factors driving the need for creativity in organizations, and organizational creativity and innovation supporting characteristics. 4.3. Elements of an innovative organization. 4.4. Problem-solving and creativity processes. 4.5. Sources and tips for innovative ideas and broad sources of information useful to creative engineers -- 5. Creativity management and manpower creativity. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Managing, selecting, and retaining creative people. 5.3. Tasks of key professionals in innovative companies. 5.4. Good creativity management qualities, guidelines and interventions for managers to improve organizational innovation. 5.5. Steps for increasing a manager's own creativity and practical guidelines for creative thinking using memory. 5.6. Creative group characteristics and characteristics of a creativity encouraging leader. 5.7. Characteristics of a creative individual, engineer, scientist, entrepreneur and characteristics of a noncreative person. 5.8. A successful inventor's characteristics' frequency and personal rewards to engineers practicing disciplined creativity -- 6. Creativity methods. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. General creativity methods. 6.3. Creativity methods for application in engineering