While society's demand for creativity is echoed across the world, teachers in higher
education often struggle to support students' development of creative competencies. This …

Background Over the past decade, there has been a shift in science, technology,
engineering and math education, especially in engineering, towards a competency‐based …

Fear is growing that robots and artificial intelligence will replace many occupations. To
remain relevant in this changing career landscape, the worker of the future is expected to be …

Research shows a disconnection between creativity and education. In addition, studies
rarely describe how instructors in higher education make use of mobile devices to foster …

Although there is no doubt about the relevance of creativity within education, theory has not
been always translated into the practical level, for many reasons. In this paper we analyse …

Engineers need creativity to achieve different solutions to the same problem. Creative
competence has become a cross competence in engineering studies. In this research an …

In this evidence-based practice paper, we discuss ways for researchers and educators to
more sensitively, accurately, and effectively collect demographic information on surveys …

Highlights•Student design teams focus on the technical feasibility of concepts during the
selection process.•Creativity is rarely discussed during concept selection despite it being set …

Background Prior researchers developed an instrument to measure perceived design
thinking ability of first‐year students interested in engineering, and they validated the …

While creativity is often seen as an indispensable quality of engineering design, individuals
often select conventional or previously successful options during the concept selection …