Searching for the Most Creative Engineer.

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 creativity skill 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 the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid, to enhance creativity as one of the most relevant skills. The goal is clearly to improve the creative skill of the engineers in the industrial field, having focused the activities carried out on the two major players in the educational process, i.e. the teaching staff and the students. The paper describes the process followed to gradually bring on board an ever increasing number of teachers committed to developing their student's creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]