IJEE : Call for Papers

Written by Administrator Monday, 03 October 2011 08:19

Call for Papers

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION

For a Special Issue on Computer‐Aided creativity enhancement in engineering education

Guest editors

Computers have gained more and more importance for product development since the dissemination of the first prototype CAD systems in aerospace industry. Nowadays, they play a crucial role in any industry in detail design tasks, as well as for planning production activities. Recently, Computer‐Aided Innovation (CAI) systems have extended the domain of computer application to the earliest stages of product development and to the support of the entire innovation pipeline.

Moreover, in the last decade, Information Technology systems have substantially fostered a shared vision of creative patterns among different disciplines, resulting in a consistently growing interest in creativity concept. This led towards the birth of a novel and fertile field of research, namely the interplay between creativity stimulation and computer systems. Among the different research activities related to the role of computers to support innovation processes, an emerging role is constituted by software applications capable to develop human creativity by encouraging the perseverance of designer in the research of innovative solutions and by aiding the designer with a coaching activity, acting as an expert system that guides the user throughout cognitive processes.

Within this context, many open research issues still require to be investigated, from the theoretical models of the cognitive processes involved in inventive design, to the assessment of computers’ potential to reduce learning efforts and to enhance technical creativity.

The present special issue aims at investigating the complementary aspects governing the adoption of computers in the complex field of building and developing inventive design capabilities.