Digital learning design: from ideation via TRIZ to implementation

Current digital medium influences on traditional higher education arrangement. Innovative standards, pedagogical methods, mechanisms for evaluations emerge driven by technology. In response to this changes, teachers adapt and embed creative course designs and invent new classrooms, attempting increase in effectiveness of education. This study is an attempt to apply systematic creativity toolkit for generation of ideas in higher education. The prime aim is to create concepts of completely new or enhanced educational course designs and methodologies. Theory of Inventive Problem Solving is defined package of idea generation tools, commonly applied for engineering. However, in this paper its value is recognized for ideation in general and applied to education. To achieve this aim the case-study was placed. The preliminary results provide conceptual models and ideas for new more effective knowledge, experience and attitude transfer forms. Each design is described in terms of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) model. TPCK is a basic framework for effective technology integration in teaching process. Some ideas appear in the real “Systematic Creativity and TRIZ” course in Lappeenranta University of Technology. The feedback system and video materials were developed and e-learning platform was selected for the course. Students’ satisfaction and design effectiveness were tested by the surveys, observations and learning analytics from platforms. Overall, this work sheds light on the new blended and online learning designs and standards, underlining the necessity and direction of inventing and improving in higher education.Post-print / Final draf

A Method of System Model Improvement Using TRIZ Function Analysis and Trimming

This chapter presents a method of system model improvement by means of system complexity reduction, based on TRIZ function analysis and trimming. The suggested method can be used for new development as well as improvement of an existing system. The presented approach is illustrated by an industrial case study.Post-print / Final draf

How Science and Inventing Play Together: Example of Averaging and Mixing Processes Design

Abstract The problem of poor systematic support of the stage of ideation in practical engineering design is addressed. Mathematical modelling of process’s dynamics is used to generate alternative architecture of a technological unit. The approach is applied to the design of mixing-averaging complex, where the analysis of statistical dynamics equations paves the road to new design concepts. The parametric analysis and optimization of new solution demonstrates potential benefits and savings. The study suggests an iterative scheme of conceptual design, where quantitative and qualitative design tools work together.</jats:p

Lower Abstraction Level of TRIZ Inventive Principles Improves Ideation Productivity of Engineering Students

The 40 Altshuller Inventive Principles with numerous sub-principles remain over decades the most frequently applied tool of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving TRIZ for systematic idea generation. However, their application often requires a concentrated, creative and abstract way of thinking that can be fairly challenging for the newcomers to TRIZ. This paper describes an approach to reduce the abstraction level of inventive sub-principles and presents the results of the idea generation experiment conducted with three groups of undergraduate and graduate students from different years of study in mechanical and process engineering. The students were asked to generate and to record their individual ideas for three design problems using a pre-defined set of classical and modified sub-principles within 10 minutes. The overall outcomes of the experiment support the assumption that the less abstract wording of the modified sub-principles leads to higher number of ideas. The distribution of ideas between the fields of MATCHEM-IBD (Mechanical, Acoustic, Thermal, Chemical, Electrical, Magnetic, Intermolecular, Biological and Data processing) differs significantly between groups using modified and abstract sub-principles

Conceptual Design of a Functional Orthodontic Appliance for the Correction of Skeletal Class II Malocclusion

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Magnetic modelling and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of an aluminium production electrolytic cell

A simulation of the motion of molten aluminium inside an electrolytic cell is presented. Since the driving term of the aluminium motion is the Lorentz (j × B) body force acting within the fluid,this problem involves the solution of the magneto-hydro-dynamic equations. Different solver modules for the magnetic field computation and for the fluid motion simulation are coupled together. The interactions of all these are presented and discussed