Further information
Attendance at this session is free but it is essential that you register in advance. To register please contact Fabienne Laperche f.laperche@imperial.ac.uk . The deadline to register for this session is Thursday 2 April.
Professor Peter Childs, Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College hosts this interactive session.
Abstract: Creativity is a valuable attribute – in both our personal and professional lives. And developing and nurturing it can be extremely important for success. But do you know how to do that? And what is creativity anyway?
Creativity is the ability to invent or develop something new that has value and we now recognise that there are environmental, personal and organisational factors that can enhance it. In fact, there is a wide range of creative methods that you can use in both your personal and professional life to enhance your creative and generative activities.
This session will explore the environmental factors that can boost your success in undertaking creative tasks or generating new ideas and solutions. It will also introduce you to the scope of creative methods and processes that can assist in generative activity. In addition, it will outline the principles of brainstorming and elementary brainstorming practice. This will involve your active participation in group activities during the session.
Biography: Peter Childs is Professor of Engineering Design at Imperial College London. His general interests include creativity; the application of creative methods across diverse disciplines; sustainable energy component, concept and system design; fluid flow in rotating applications and heat transfer. He is joint convenor of the Innovation Design Engineering double masters, a joint degree of the Royal College of Art and Imperial College. He was formerly director of InQbate, the HEFCE funded Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Creativity; director of the Rolls-Royce supported University Technology Centre for Aero-Thermal Systems; and Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Sussex where he worked for 21 years. He is also a director of SURF Flow Solutions Ltd, a spin-out technology company.
He has written several books on mechanical design, commerce and creativity, rotating flow and temperature measurement and is a former winner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – International Gas Turbine Institute John P. Davis award for exceptional contribution to the literature of gas turbine technology.
The session will begin with food and drinks at 18.00.