Annotated Bibliography

1) Aparicio, A. C., & Ruiz-Teran, A. M. (2007). Tradition and Innovation in Teaching Structural Design in Civil Engineering. Journal Of Professional Issues In Engineering Education & Practice, 133(4), 340-349. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1052-3928(2007)133:4(340)

These authors show the importance for innovation when teaching Structural Design in Civil Engineering. They realized that there are a relevant amount of students that are not able to formulate creative solutions to the basic problems of the world. 

2) Badran, I. I. (2007). Enhancing creativity and innovation in engineering education. European Journal Of Engineering Education, 32(5), 573-585. doi:10.1080/03043790701433061

In this paper, the author realizes that the modern world has been increasing its need for creative thinking, specially for Civil Engineering. Looking for this need, the author approaches over the need of enhancement of creativity and innovation in Engineering Education.

3) Mahboub, K. C., Portillo, M. B., Yinhui, L., & Chadranratna, S. (2004). Measuring and enhancing creativity. European Journal Of Engineering Education, 29(3), 429-436.

In this text, the authors from the University of Kentucky researched about ways to improve creativity in Design Based Courses (Civil Engineering and Interior Design). They realized that creativity may be enhanced as a result of a special training module.

4) Michael, L. (2004). Creativity on the teaching agenda. European Journal Of Engineering Education, 29(3), 415-428.

This paper describes a start that has been made to teaching creativity to undergraduate civil engineering students using a set of examples and puzzles that are designed to highlight mental traps that we create for ourselves, and tricks to try to circumvent them.

5) Oxford Student’s Dictionary (New Edition). (2007). Oxford, UK: Oxford United Press

A word definition was used in the main paper.

6) Silva, A., Henriques, E., & Carvalho, A. (2009). Creativity enhancement in a product development course through entrepreneurship learning and intellectual property awareness. European Journal Of Engineering Education, 34(1), 63-75. doi:10.1080/03043790802710201

This paper shows the effects of teaching product development integrated in an entrepreneurship framework. According to the author, this teaching process “promotes students skills in what it takes to start a new business and makes them feel comfortable in executing the idea-to-product viability evaluation in a business perspective”.

7) Zheng, W., Shih, H., Lozano, K., & Mo, Y. (2011). Impact of Nanotechnology on Future Civil Engineering Practice and Its Reflection in Current Civil Engineering Education. Journal Of Professional Issues In Engineering Education & Practice, 137(3), 162-173. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000034

This paper introduces relevant nanotechnology developments to convey the new vision and inspire creativity in civil engineering. It also presents a pedagogical framework for integrating nanotechnology education into a civil engineering curriculum and cultivating self-regulated learning and creativity skills for civil engineering students.