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    Creative design skills of engineering students
    Lewis, William Powell ( 1972)
    An investigation has been carried out into the creative design skills of engineering students in the University of Melbourne. In order to tap students' creative abilities, open-ended design problems representative of those encountered by the professional engineer in practice were devised. Students' responses to the problems were then observed and analyzed. The results showed that there were many interesting and apparently important aspects of the students' creative problem-solving behaviour which could be identified and measured, but which were not revealed by performance in conventional university examinations. These aspects of problem-solving appear to be important from the point of view of the students' later professional careers, but further work is needed to confirm this.