1402 Divergent Thinking Based Design Education

Abstract

The current engineering design education in Japan focuses on problem solving and pay most of the attention t hw we can produce better sophisticated products. But if we would like to be competitive in the global market, we should focus more on problem discovery. What technologies are needed locally should be studied and local needs must be identified. Thus engineering design education for globalizing Japan is not to follow the traditional way of convergent engineering, but to establish divergent engineering approaches