Develop your Creativity.
Engineering Art - The French Perspective
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Use the sketchbook to generate new ideas and reflect on old ones
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Get comfortable with your surroundings. Have reasons to go out into the city and explore different parts of it.
Not everything will have tangible results or be practical, but all assignments are designed to cause you to engage creativity, investigate your surroundings along with your visual experience and reflect.
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Item descLearn to look, interpret, reflect and respond to what other artists have made.
Investigate creative connections:ake meaning of what is seen.
Students will take away a better understanding of the history of art and its association with engineering design
They will learn to evaluate visual choices and perceive cultural connections related to those choices. Ultimately students will gain a broad view of creativity's application in a global environment and have a technical skill set that allows them to further participate in inter-cultural communication.ription
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Explore a variety of drawing techniques and compositional possibilities.
Digital Engineering Design
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Learn computer-aided design, digital animation, and programming techniques using C#, Python, SolidWorks, Blender, and Unity.
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Explore a variety of topics that allow you to engage in the global context of creation and engineering.
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Get comfortable with your surroundings. Have reasons to go out into the city and explore different parts of it.
Not everything will have tangible results or be practical, but all assignments are designed to cause you to engage creativity, investigate your surroundings along with your visual experience and reflect.
Honors Summer in the City - Lille and the Creative Process
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Engineer and scholar, Theodore von Kármán, famously said “a scientist studies what is, whereas an engineer creates what never was.” To create “what never was” requires some serious creativity. This 3-credit Honors course designed for the study about program “UF in Lille: Engineering & Arts” will focus on the process of cultivating creativity. In addition to considering case studies and classroom exercises, the course will make several excursions to engage the arts and cultural resources of the city of Lille along with the city’s built environment and urban fabric to catalog and develop the skills necessary for the creative process. These skills include: observation & ways of seeing; visual thinking; creative ideation & divergent thinking. Using these skills, the class will partner with a cultural institution in Lille and work through a formal design process to generate and propose creative solutions to a real-world challenge faced by that institution.
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Gain knowledge of the design thinking process, public communication, creative problem solving, and divergent thinking
Ultimately students will gain a broad view of creativity's application in a global environment and have a knowledge base that allows them to further participate in inter-cultural communication.
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Students will synthesize what they’ve learned from the course with their own knowledge, perspectives, and experiences, analyzing course content in order to contribute to classroom discussion and apply their learnings to their own interests and fields of academic inquiry