Resumen de Searching for the most creative engineer
María Luisa Martínez Muneta, Mario López de Ávila, Gregorio Romero, Jesús Félez Mindán
Creativity is one of the skills of our graduates most demanded by working companies, which is directly linked to problem-solving, innovation, and the creation of new businesses ideas or the patents development. The demand for the creativityskill is ever increasing and appears among the five skills most valued by employers at times when resources are most limited.During the last three years, a set of initiatives has been performing at the Industrial Technologies Degree course, at theUniversidad Polite ́cnica of Madrid, to enhance creativity as one of the most relevant skills. The goal is clearly to improvethe creative skill of the engineers in the industrial field, having focused the activities carried out on the two major players inthe educational process, i.e. the teaching staff and the students. The paper describes the process followed to gradually bringon board an ever increasing number of teachers committed to developing their student’s creativity.
