Divergent Thinking during the Electrospraying Processes for Implementing Engineering Teaching in Higher Education

DOI

10.2991/iceiss-17.2017.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Divergent thinking; Higher education; Advanced techniques; Creativity

Abstract

Knowing how to do divergent thinking is very important for cultivating the creativity of college students in high education. In this paper, an advanced technique--electrospraying was exploited as an example to explain how to foster the undergraduate students' divergent thinking. From the preparation of a working solution, the implementation of electrospraying process, the characterization of electrosprayed microparticles, and also the final potential applications of the mediated microproducts. Each of the above-mentioned steps comprises good materials for promoting the students to think divergently, learn actively, judge and make a decision using convergent thinking. It is suggested for high education that advanced technologies can be utilized as useful tools for cultivating the students' divergent thinking and innovation capability.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yaoyao Yang
AU  - Wangqiu He
AU  - Shifeng Liu
AU  - Jing Xu
AU  - Yiyong He
AU  - Dengguang Yu
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Divergent Thinking during the Electrospraying Processes for Implementing Engineering Teaching in Higher Education
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science (ICEISS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 39
EP  - 42
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceiss-17.2017.10
DO  - 10.2991/iceiss-17.2017.10
ID  - Yang2017/11
ER  -