CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE SYLLABUS OF MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES BASED ON THE INVENTIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH

Eslami, Seyede Zahra; Ayati, Mohsen; Rostaminejad, Mohammad Ali; Salimi Namin, Sarah

doi:10.22047/ijee.2025.494453.2151

CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE SYLLABUS OF MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES BASED ON THE INVENTIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

seyede zahra eslami ¹

mohsen ayati ¹

mohammad ali rostaminejad ¹

Sarah Salimi Namin ²

¹ university birjand

² Amirkabir University

https://doi.org/10.22047/ijee.2025.494453.2151

Abstract

To enhance the quality of education and develop competent engineers, university curricula must include creative methods and solutions for addressing complex and unknown problems. This can be achieved through the adoption of innovative and systematic approaches, such as the inventive problem-solving methodology. For this aim, the present study was conducted to analyze the content of the syllabi for mechanical and industrial engineering programs based on the principles of inventive problem-solving. To achieve the research objectives, a qualitative content analysis method of the deductive type was employed. The statistical population consisted of approved syllabi by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology for the undergraduate programs in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. In this study, purposive sampling (criterion-based) was utilized. The sample size in the Mechanical Engineering course syllabus includes 31 credits, equivalent to 11 course titles. In the industrial engineering courses, the total comprises 63 credits, equivalent to 21 course titles. The selected courses are among the key and important courses of the curriculum, having a greater impact on empowering students to solve problems. The data collection tool was a content analysis checklist, with components and indicators determined based on TRIZ principles. The unit of analysis was the objectives stated in the course syllabi. The recording unit was the content of the objectives. Research results indicate that the courses mechanical vibrations (contradiction), project management and control (resource and ideality), strength of materials, and machine dynamics (functionality) in mechanical engineering, and the courses project management and control, inventory planning and control, strategic management and planning, and designing the creation of industries (resource) in industrial engineering, align with TRIZ principles. At the end of the research, suggestions have been made to consider inventive problem solving in curricula.

Keywords

Inventive problem solving

syllabus

content analysis

curriculum

engineering education

20.1001.1.16072316.1404.27.107.5.9

Subjects

Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education

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