Creative Engineering Design Assessment

The Creative Engineering Design Assessment or CEDA is a newly developed tool to assess creativity specific to engineering design which is vital for innovation. The revised CEDA assesses usefulness in addition to originality.  Both originality and usefulness are key constructs in creativity but are primarily essential and emphasized ever more in engineering design. 

Since the preliminary research was presented to the National Science Foundation, further reliability and validity has been developed and established. The CEDA is different from other general creativity measures as it demonstrates discriminant validity with the Creative Personality Scale, Creative Temperament Scale, and the Cognitive Risk Tolerance Scale, and has demonstrated convergent validity with the Purdue Creativity Test and the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test- Rotations. It focuses on engineering specific measures, measuring engineering creativity and spatial skills.

The aim of this book is to disseminate the CEDA tool for use in engineering educational programs, industry, NASA and the military.  Creative Engineering Design Assessment (CEDA) Background, Directions, Manual, Scoring Guide and Uses discusses and outlines the need for creativity in our global economy and in engineering design and provides the CEDA tool in effort to achieve this.

Christine Charyton, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.    

Dr. Charyton’s research encompasses the synthesis and unification of interdisciplinary knowledge and transdisciplinary science.  Dr. Charyton focuses on the integration of psychology and engineering with cognitive and learning interventions.  Dr. Charyton has been actively working on the measurement and assessment of creative engineering design and cognitive risk tolerance.

Dr. Charyton is also a licensed psychologist in private practice specializing in the treatment of comorbid psychological and neurological conditions using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in combination with mindfulness and positive psychology.  Dr. Charyton’s clinical research integrates interventional research with neuroscience and epidemiology.