| Date Posted |
Journal Exercise |
| January 12th |
What does a chef design? |
| January 12th |
Design a new way to keep mens pants up. What are the
advantages of your design? The shortcomings? |
| January 12th |
In terms of instructing class, what does a professor
design? |
| January 19th |
Write a clever greeting card message. |
| February 22nd |
Say we decide to reform Motely Crue, but with people from class.
Who would be Nikki Sixx? Who would be Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Vince Neil? Why
did you make the decisions you did? Now do the same experiment, but use
your professors from Mechanical Engineering. |
| February 22nd |
Write a poem about Inventive Design. Be sure to include an
illustration |
| February 22nd |
Bend over and look at the world upside down. Do it in an area
familiar to you like a room in your house. What do you see that
you usually don't notice? |
| February 22nd |
This semester we used the Cubes of... twice. We did the
activity on the first day of class then again well into the semester.
The second execution of the activity came after a significant
introduction to and practicing of brainstorming. This double use of
a brainstorming activity is an element of the class we are likely to
continue doing in future offerings of this course. Design a new
activity for us. Keep it simple enough that it can be done in an hour,
by a reasonable team size, with modest preparation, design constraints,
and room for students to be creative (and hopefully have fun). |