Industry - Academia Cooperation Support for Creative Thinking Skills Strengthening of Undergraduates' Students in Electrical Engineering

2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2018) 2018
Nadežda Kuņicina, Anatolijs Zabašta, Anastasija Žiravecka, Elīna Gaile-Sarkane, Leonīds Ribickis

Тraining a new generation of engineers, who will create new enterprises and new products for market in the field of electrical engineering is achieving through supporting of individuals creative thinking. In this work, introduction of the innovation management course for undergraduate students of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, the top down and bottom up approach related cooperation with an industry is described. Teaching methods such as a project – based method, mentoring approach, double supervision of scientific research, industrial internships and final prototyping are discussed in this work. The case of visiting students training in a frame of the ERASMUS+ project, applied testing methodology and analysis of the results are discussed in this work.

Keywords
education of undergraduate students, creative thinking; product development; electrical engineering
DOI
10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363320
Hyperlink
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8363320/

Kuņicina, N., Zabašta, A., Žiravecka, A., Gaile-Sarkane, E., Ribickis, L. Industry - Academia Cooperation Support for Creative Thinking Skills Strengthening of Undergraduates' Students in Electrical Engineering. In: 2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2018), Spain, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 17-20 April, 2018. Piscataway: IEEE, 2018, pp.857-865. ISBN 978-1-5386-2958-1. e-ISBN 978-1-5386-2957-4. ISSN 2165-9559. e-ISSN 2165-9567. Available from: doi:10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363320

Publication language
English (en)