1. Promoting Creativity in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Courses César Cárdenas Mechatronics Department Raúl Moysen, Ricardo Sosa Industrial Design Department

3. 5 engineering courses: Diseño de sistemas embebidos Proyecto integral de tecnologías digitales Proyecto integral de tecnologías electrónicas Proyecto integrador de tecnologías electrónicas I-II 7 industrial design studios: Proyecto de diseño industrial (1-7) Aim: compulsory multidisciplinary courses (years 2 to 4)

4. So far: Proyecto integral de tecnologías electrónicas + Proyecto de diseño industrial 5 (Social-based products and services) 40+ students in multidisciplinary teams (3 to 4)

5. 3 stages: social needs, concept generation and project development Social Intelligence Design: “integrate and understand the interactions between designing and social intelligence”

11. Self-perception of learning (innovation) Engineering students’ self-perception of innovation is better than industrial design students' Eng. Answers % Eng. Answers Ind. D. Answers % Ind. D. Answers 1 0 0 1 4 2 0 0 1 4 3 2 9 2 10 4 4 17 4 17 5 17 74 15 65

12. Self-perception of learning (creativity) Design students have a slightly better self-perception of creativity than innovation Eng. Answers % Eng. Answers Ind. D. Answers % Ind. D. Answers 1 0 0 1 4 2 0 0 1 4 3 1 4 1 4 4 4 18 2 10 5 18 78 18 78

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