Engineering Science Fiction Creation and Engineering Imagination Education
Engineering imagination education can lay a thinking foundation for the emergence of a big engineering view, and can be an important direction for future exploration of engineering education.To actualize engineering imagination education, engineering science fiction (ESF) creation offers students the chance to view science, technology, society, and the humanities as components of an integral engineering system.This approach stimulates their inner passion and fosters the development of the big engineering view, thereby nurturing engineers who possess a visionary outlook and a deep sense of humanity.Works of ESF can be viewed as records and descriptions of engineers' construction in imaginary world.Engineering education and Sci-Fi Creation share a natural alignment in envisioning the future, integrating multidisciplinary knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and emotionally stimulation.Consequently, cognitive training through ESF creation can effectively enhance core engineering competence for university students.In the past, Bacon's quote "Knowledge is power" has inspired people to learn new things.In the future, engineering innovations will be based on a great deal of interdisciplinary knowledge, imagination should be valued in education as a source of "living" innovation, and "imagination is power" will be the new incentive." Learning by doing" is the philosophy of learning that engineering education area.Similarly, bold imagination and bold action are the best entry points to start in ESF creation.The principles of theme design for ESF creation are sufficient appeal to students, sufficient room for free play by students, and relevance to the curriculum in which it is embedded.Teaching reform experiments have shown that ESF creation training can be effectively embedded in introductory or creative entrepreneurship courses as an experiential learning unit, and thus easily promoted.Utilizing the "5I" self-assessment framework, students can concentrate on the five developmental dimensions: imaginative stimulation, interdisciplinary knowledge synthesis, emotional engagement, intellectual insight, and innovative inspiration.Students' experience of bewilderment, amazement, brain-burning, and flow indicate that despite the challenges inherent in ESF creation task, they embrace it and derive profound personal growth from it.Students' thoughts, emotions and creative imagination in science fiction works also provide a new way for science and engineering teachers to understand the inner world of their students.Educators did not explicitly address aspirations during instruction, nor offer implicit guidance, yet several students have noted that engaging in ESF creation has significantly influenced their future life planning.This underscores the significant educational value of introducing ESF creation at the freshman level in cultivating aspirations and shaping life goals.ESF creation can make people feel the extraordinary industrial romantic atmosphere, stimulate students' interest in engineering, can promote the development of students' engineering imagination and interdisciplinary synthesis ability, and can enable students to get a Big Engineering Experience through imagination at a very low cost, which should be very useful in the field of engineering education.In the future, as more and more people realize the unique value of engineering imagination education, there will be many more surprising developments in this fascinating area of teaching and learning..
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