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The Engineer's Dilemma: Innovation vs. Consistency

The Engineer's Dilemma: Innovation vs. Consistency

  • How to find the balance between innovative creativity and quality control processes in engineering and design
  • How utilize the structure of quality control processes to encourage and foster creativity

The presentation will be a very brief rundown of how the Flange Cuff (PES' Design) design won Energy Innovators Pitch Challenge at LAGCOE 2015, followed by a presentation of how the engineering and design processes can be structured enough to actually encourage creativity. It will go through common misconceptions about design creativity and rigorous quality control systems, and how they can complement each other. It will lead to an open forum discussion on how creativity and consistency are linked.