Innovative thinking and design

Author: Zhang Tie
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: "Innovative Thinking and Design" is a newly added course in the reform of teaching in mechanical engineering majors in higher education institutions. The purpose is to cultivate students' innovative abilities, help them master the general principles of invention and creation, and enable them to utilize the knowledge they have acquired to design a new product or realize new ideas. This book comprehensively elaborates on the process of innovative and design thinking; methods and processes of invention and creation; design criteria and methods; green design of new products; and the realization of new product functions. It allows students, after completing foundational and professional foundational courses, to further exercise their initiative and enhance their abilities in invention and creation. This textbook is primarily suitable for senior undergraduate students, as well as for continuing education of practicing engineering technicians and engineering professionals aspiring to become inventors as a reference.