UK Centre for Materials Education
Working with you to enhance the student experience
Working with you to enhance the student experience
16 October 2001, 09:30 - 16:00, Imperial College, London
Cost: Free to HE
Employers across the world are increasingly concerned that their new employees should be creative. Nowhere does this apply with more force than among employers of science and engineering graduates. However creative problem solving is neither explicitly taught nor assessed in most undergraduate courses. TRIZ is a clever and successful way of helping staff and students to be creative, by harnessing the collected experience of many previous inventors. It has great potential for inclusion in undergraduate courses, in materials science and in other engineering disciplines.
This one-day meeting will involve a combination of informal lecture and interactive problem solving using an evolved version of the inventive problem solving method, TRIZ. The meeting aims to provide delegates with new ways of looking at their problems and innovation opportunities, and to demonstrate that tangible benefits can be achieved with a relatively short exposure to a method constructed from over 1500 person years worth of scientific research and the analysis of over 2 million of the world's most successful inventive solutions.
The meeting aims to highlight the importance of systematic creativity techniques across a wide spectrum of the education community, and to show delegates a logical, pragmatic and proven implementation route.
Researchers, educators, anyone involved in creative problem solving or opportunity finding.
| 09.30 | Welcome |
| 10.00 |
An Overview of TRIZ (Darrell Mann) |
| - History, Philosophy, Benefits - 40 Inventive Principles - Eliminating Trade-offs and Compromises - TRIZ in Action - interactive problem solve |
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| 11.30 | Ideality and Resources (Simon Dewulf) |
| - Better problem definition using the
'ideal final result' - Maximising the use of existing resources… - …Even the harmful things are useful things - TRIZ in Action - interactive problem solve |
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| 13.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Predictable Evolution (Darrell Mann) |
| - the high predictability of technology
evolution trends - using TRIZ evolution trends to solve problems - TRIZ in Action - evolving a real world design |
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| 15.00 | Accessing Knowledge (Simon Dewulf) |
| - filing knowledge by 'function' to
break down barriers between disciplines - TRIZ knowledge databases - Someone somewhere has probably (99% likely) already solved your problem or something like it - Putting It All Together |
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| 15.30 | Tea and Questions |
| 16.00 | Close |
Simon Dewulf - CREAX, Imperial College, London
Darrell Mann - Industrial Fellow, University of Bath