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NASA NTRS2001

Creativity and Creative Teams

A review of the linkage between knowledge, creativity, and design is presented and related to the best practices of multidisciplinary design teams. The discussion related to design and design teams is presented in the context of both the complete aerodynamic design community and specifically the work environment at the NASA Langley Research Center. To explore ways to introduce knowledge and creativity into the research and design environment at NASA Langley Research Center a creative design activity was executed within the context of a national product development activity. The success of the creative design team activity gave rise to a need to communicate the experience in a straightforward and managed approach. As a result the concept of creative potential its formulated and assessed with a survey of a small portion of the aeronautics research staff at NASA Langley Research Center. The final section of the paper provides recommendations for future creative organizations and work environments.

Wood, Richard M.↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Modeling Provider Creativity in Medical System Design Simulating a Medical MacGyver

This presentation describes a method for modeling provider creativity during the requirements building and risk assessment phase of medical system design. Practicing medicine in isolated, confined, and extreme environments requires providers to use limited supplies in creative ways. This is necessary to handle unexpected medical events or make better use of limited storage capacity by leaving low-use, bulky equipment behind in favor of in situ or dual-use resources. This is a highly-valued skillset in remote environments, however, the ability to simulate this care creativity computationally is difficult.

Brian Lonquich↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Operationalizing “Wickedness” as Analytical and Creative Tools to Transform Aviation

As the world grows increasingly networked and complex, so do challenges faced by aviation and technology professionals (e.g., fighting wildfires and increasing access to healthcare). There is a need to develop new methods to tackle complex socio-technical problems relevant to aviation. The concept of “wicked” problems offers new methods and perspectives for framing complex challenges. In this paper, we present two modes of operationalizing “wickedness” used by NASA’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) Project to develop transformative innovations in aviation: as an analytical, evaluative tool and a creative, generative tool. Through project examples, we demonstrate that using wickedness as a creative tool during the design process enables rich problem exploration with diverse stakeholders and reflection on how a problem is formulated, while usage as an analytical tool can provide criteria for project selection if internal agreement on the definitions of such criteria is established. Operationalizing wickedness as a creative tool may also enable organizational development of a generative mindset to better adapt to our rapidly changing future.

Robyn C Richmond↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Operationalizing “Wickedness” as Analytical and Creative Tools to Transform Aviation

As the world grows increasingly networked and complex, so do challenges faced by aviation and technology professionals (e.g., fighting wildfires and increasing access to healthcare). There is a need to develop new methods to tackle complex socio-technical problems relevant to aviation. The concept of “wicked” problems offers new methods and perspectives for framing complex challenges. In this paper, we present two modes of operationalizing “wickedness” used by NASA’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) Project to develop transformative innovations in aviation: as an analytical, evaluative tool and a creative, generative tool. Through project examples, we demonstrate that using wickedness as a creative tool during the design process enables rich problem exploration with diverse stakeholders and reflection on how a problem is formulated, while usage as an analytical tool can provide criteria for project selection if internal agreement on the definitions of such criteria is established. Operationalizing wickedness as a creative tool may also enable organizational development of a generative mindset to better adapt to our rapidly changing future.

Robyn Richmond↗
NASA NTRS1994

Creative inventive design and research

This paper is a summary of a course given at the Goddard Space Flight Center for graduate engineers entitled 'Creative Inventive Design and Research.' This course strikes at the heart of the problem as it describes the thinking process itself before it goes deeper into the design process as a structured method for performing creative design. Many problem examples and figures are presented in a form that should make clear to all students what this process is and how it can be used.

Kerley, James J.↗
NASA NTRS2018

A Systems Architecting Methodology Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Promote Creative Engineering Synthesis

Architecting complex systems requires high-level cognitive processing and extensive knowledge of the system elements, functions, relationships, and constraints. This paper describes a systems architecting methodology implemented through cognitive psychological creative processes using Bloom’s taxonomy as a framework to generate the expert knowledge required to effectively and systematically synthesize new systems. Systems architecting activities were carried out to identify, develop, and capture factual and conceptual knowledge relevant to the system subject matter and functional elements, as well as to facilitate active processing of the knowledge through remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Dual channel and limited capacity principles of learning were incorporated into the format of the systems engineering tools developed to assist with information processing and retention. Meta-cognitive strategies associated with memory and creative idea generation were implemented into the methodology to effectively and efficiently develop system alternatives using the full collection of knowledge. Synthesis of an orbiting sample capture and orientation system architecture to enable spacecraft-based on orbit capture of a Mars sample container for a potential Mars Sample Return campaign was used as a case study.

Adajian, Rama↗
NASA NTRS1992

Creative-Dynamics Approach To Neural Intelligence

Paper discusses approach to mathematical modeling of artificial neural networks exhibiting complicated behaviors reminiscent of creativity and intelligence of biological neural networks. Neural network treated as non-Lipschitzian dynamical system - as described in "Non-Lipschitzian Dynamics For Modeling Neural Networks" (NPO-17814). System serves as tool for modeling of temporal-pattern memories and recognition of complicated spatial patterns.

Zak, Michail A.↗
NASA NTRS1993

Model Of Neural Network With Creative Dynamics

Paper presents analysis of mathematical model of one-neuron/one-synapse neural network featuring coupled activation and learning dynamics and parametrical periodic excitation. Demonstrates self-programming, partly random behavior of suitable designed neural network; believed to be related to spontaneity and creativity of biological neural networks.

Zak, Michail↗
NASA NTRS2002

NASA Participated in the Japan 2001 Science, Creativity and the Young Mind Workshop

During the week of July 23, 2001, a workshop called the Japan 2001 Science, Creativity and the Young Mind took place at Bristol University in Bristol, England. Coordinated by the Clifton Scientific Trust, it brought together 60 British and Japanese students and provided them with a forum for learning and interacting. All the students were chosen from geographical areas of social deprivation, where university education is not seen as a natural progression for students. One of the aims of the workshop was to give the combined group a new view of themselves as potential scientists and an ambition to succeed at the highest level. Members of the Glenn Research Center's Learning Technologies Project participated with six of the students and their team leaders as a Space Science Team. Four interactive videoconferencing sessions were held between the NASA Glenn Research Center and Bristol University on four consecutive days. During the sessions, students raised questions concerning various theories about the probable formation of volcanoes on Mars. Of specific interest was if the great Tharsis volcanoes might be the result of an ancient collision of planetary proportions, or if plate tectonic movement, evidence for which was recently discovered by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft, might account for them.

Kolecki, Joseph C.↗
DOE OSTI2022

Creative absorber design and optimization for CO 2 capture with aqueous piperazine

The Texas Carbon Management Program is preparing a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the PZASTM (Piperazine with the Advanced Stripper TM ) for CO 2 capture at a natural gas combined cycle power plant in West Texas. This paper develops the absorber design for the capture system and studies the operational strategies of the absorber in response to ambient temperature swing. The design uses 2 absorber trains, and each train integrates absorption and a water-wash section in one column. Each column has a cross-section area of 174 m 2 and consists of 3 sections of MellapakPlus® 252Y structured packing. Packing heights for each section are 3, 4.9, and 2.7 m from top to bottom. A pump-around intercooler applied at the bottom bed circulates solvent and eliminates the direct contact cooler. The baseline CO 2 removal rate is 90% and will vary between 78% and 90% with ambient temperature. The system uses air cooling to eliminate cooling water usage. The water balance in the system will be managed by operating the water wash at a high circulation rate (1300 kg/h) to condense water during the night and make up for water loss during the day. Finally, the proposed design reduces the capital cost of the absorber column by minimizing the packing height and eliminating the direct contact cooler (DCC), and improves the energy cost by lowering the pump-around intercooling temperature and increasing the pump-around rate.

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