創造性教育における試み : プロペラ模型の製造

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In recent years creativity education has been regarded as important at schools. As such, that type of education has been conducted at Yuge National College of Maritime Technology. This paper introduced an attempt of creativity education made in the Advanced Maritime Transportation Systems Engineering Course at Yuge College. Then I pointed out and discussed the issues about the education in this course. The creativity education concerned Maritime Science Practice. In the practice, the students were asked to produce a model screw propeller. Firstly the students were given a lecture about wing throry and propller design. Secondarily the students elected the method of producing a model propeller. The method was either casting or milling an aluminium board by thead milling machine. Thirdly the students designed the model to be propulsion-efficient in two dimensions. Fourth the students who chose cast whittled a casting wooden form and then cast the model. The students who choose milling turned off the extermal form. Finally the students filed off the external form of the model and then finished up. In the practice, the students were given only a few pieces of advice. Because of that, the students became self-motivated in working through trial and error processes. After the processes it appeared that the approaches could give the students the opportunities to enhance their creativity.