Additive creativity: an innovative way to enhance manufacturing engineering education

The present paper considers two pedagogical approaches that are mixing creativity tools and Additive Manufacturing(AM) knowledge and evaluates them through the originality and feasibility of the ideas generated as well as the satisfactionof the students. This experimentation was conducted in an engineering school with two groups of postgraduate studentsduring a one-day Project-Based Learning module (PBL). This study points out that closely mixing creativity tools and AMknowledge all along the module gives better results in term of originality, feasibility, and student satisfaction than a moretraditional approach disconnecting them. We believe this work can improve existing teaching activities enabling studentsto gain hands-on experience with additive creativity to better face tomorrow’s challenges.