Abstract
A Creative Design Seminar has been opened to 3rd-year students in mechanical engineering. The purpose of this seminar is to foster student originality and overall creativity through making things referring to familiar equipment. The students conduct an integrated operation from elaborating a plan to evaluation together with the making of a given product by themselves. The subject of this seminar is to make a Handcrafted Wire Crane which includes a special mechanical engineering feature such as a material characteristic, structure etc. The teaching method used in this seminar is based on Problem-based learning (PBL) , and pro-active student participation is required. This paper reports the gist, contents and educational effectiveness of the teaching materials. From the students' survey, they have learned about creativity, inquisitive curiosity and gained techniques, while improving their thinking. This seminar is a very effective educational tool for individual learning with teaching materials related to mechanical engineering.
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