Mechanical Design and Students＇ Creativity ＂Think outside the Box＂

A design project was used in junior level mechanical design course to challenge the students＇ creativity skills. Beside the theoretical foundation of the course subject, the students were introduced to several professional skills such as： decision making tools, technical review meetings, interaction with customers, and teamwork skills. The design challenge was to develop a bike rack to meet a list of technical and marketing constraints. Details of the project requirements are presented with a brief overview of the main project mentoring tools. Students＇ creativity is discussed through two samples of the student work. It was noticed that, the basic creativity skills of the students can be improved by using some of the training tools, however, the students vary in their response to this training.

The understanding and thinking of vocational architectural sketch＇s teaching mode

This paper analyzes problems of the current vocational architectural art in the sketch teaching, for example the touch of teaching content and professional development, which lags bebind the development of architectural design professional and is not conducive to the development of students＇ creative, thinking. Articles combined with years of practical teaching experience, teaching on proposed architectural sketches observation and expression, skill and artistic accomplishment of physical form and structure of the combination is suitable to improve the professional development needs of architectural sketches teaching ideas.

从产品设计角度探讨报纸与公共交通系统的关系——以公交巴士为例

报纸,一直以来都是人们出行过程当中的随行物品,人们习惯在长时间的等车或乘车过程中,以阅读报纸的方式来度过。而传统纸质媒体的主要角色,报纸,每年的废弃量和浪费程度居高不下,回收旧报纸是否应该只是简单地"回笼再造"?如何可以通过更为简便、有趣的方式来更好地阐述报纸与公交系统的密切关系,可以成为新的关注点。从设计创造学为基本,文章以产品设计的角度为出发点,通过分析报纸在公共交通中(尤其是公交巴士)的角色作用,以设计方法学的多角度定位为出发点,提出报纸公交系统的概念设定,并围绕公交巴士的五个系统流程,有针对性地提出报纸公交解决方案,进而对每部分的功能进行分析和探讨,以深入挖掘报纸与公交系统的渊源。