Creative Problem Solving

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Creative Problem Solving

• Visualization

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Visualization

• Seeing with the minds eye can expand creative
  thinking and problem solving.
• Dorothy A. Sisk, Professor, Lamar University

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Memory

• Human Brain
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Information processor
• Associate/connect information
• Experienced based/logic based
• Adaptable

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Improve Memory

• Practice new techniques
• Time repetitions effectively
• Connect with what you already know
• Pay attention
• Observe carefully
• Use memory aids
• Healthy life style

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Mental Languages

• Verbal talking/listening
• Mathematical uses symbols, quantities
• Sensory smell, feel, taste, hearing,
• Visualization see things, mental images
• Think of TV commercial, how do they fix their
  message in your memory?

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Mental Languages

• Solve using different mental languages,
• A farmers child receives a present of 8 animals
  (ducks and lambs) with a total of 22 legs. Find
  the number of ducks.

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Visualization

• Difference between a million, billion and
  trillion?
• One million seconds eleven ½ days
• One billion seconds 32 years
• One trillion seconds 30,000 years

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Visualization

• All thinking modes can be improved through
  visualization
• What is better, verbal directions or a map (even
  a sketch) with verbal directions?
• Changing habit, visualize positive result
• Watch news on TV, how is what is said colored by
  the pictures shown?

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Visualization

• Tools to enhance memory
• Association
• Word substitution
• Memory link
• Phonetic alphabet

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Visualization

• Sketching developing visual ideas worth
  communicating
• Drawing communicating well-formed ideas

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Sketching

• Steps in learning to sketch
• Learn to see
• Learn to handle the tools (paper and pencil) and
  what they can do
• Learn specific techniques (perspective, views)
• Practice to develop necessary eye-hand
  coordination

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Sketching

• Objects , diagrams
• Processes, flow charts
• Relationships, charts and graphs

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Visualization

• Visualization perception imagination
  communications
• We see, we imagine, we draw
• Walter Rodriguez

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Visualization

• 2D is representing 3D in only 2D.
• 3D modeling is preferred method.
• CAD is moving to 3D modeling
• ENGR 131 will cover hand sketching and SolidWorks
  3D modeler.