Assessing creativity practices in design

As part of a National Science Foundation initiative involving the Science of Design (SoD) and specifically the grant CNS-0614003, a survey was developed to measure the current level of the incorporation of creativity-promoting factors in computer science and engineering curricula in California institutions of higher learning. In some areas such as interdisciplinarity, evaluation of creative work goal setting or model creative behavior, faculty seem to be doing adequately in training the computer scientists and engineers of the future to be creative professionals. However, in other areas such as training in social-psychological processes that affect group creativity they are not. Several recommendations to faculty are provided and discussed.