Additive Creativity: An Innovative Way to Enhance Manufacturing Engineering Education

Abstract

The present paper considers two pedagogical approaches that are mixing creativity tools and Additive Manufacturing (AM) knowledge and evaluates them through the originality and feasibility of the ideas generated as well as the satisfaction of the students. This experimentation was conducted in an engineering school with two groups of postgraduate students during a one-day Project-Based Learning module (PBL). This study points out that closely mixing creativity tools andAM knowledge all along the module gives better results in term of originality, feasibility, and student satisfaction than a more traditional approach disconnecting them. We believe this work can improve existing teaching activities enabling students to gain hands-on experience with additive creativity to better face tomorrow’s challenges.