Video feature: Keller Center class focuses on creativity, innovation, design

While walking through the H wing of the Engineering Quadrangle this past spring, you may have passed a classroom with 14 students jumping up and down, stretching, playing mind games on whiteboards and drinking coffee. These activities occurred at the start of each class, and they were the warm-up for what was to come.

The Keller Center at Princeton University offered the new class ERG 392, "Creativity, Innovation and Design," which focuses on fostering creativity and encouraged different ways of thinking about real-world problems. Open to undergraduates across all departments, the course is taught by Derek Lidow, a professional specialist and lecturer in electrical engineering and the Keller Center. The course, taught for the first time this spring, will be offered again next spring.

"The University tends to focus students on convergent thinking, how to come up with the best answer, and so students don't get a chance to practice divergent thinking, coming up with all sorts of possible solutions," Lidow said. "That's what this class is really good at."

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