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Several researches have indicated that designers solve problems through synthesis: they design activities to reflect a “way of thinking” and use design thinking as a methodology for the practical, creative resolution of design problems (Buchanan 1992; Cross 1982, 2011; Lawson 1980; McKim 1973; Rowe 1987; Simon 1969). Designers need to think from a “designerly” perspective, and “design thinking” is now used to describe a particular style of innovative problem solving. It generally implies the ability to transform the way products, services, processes, and strategies are developed. This study addresses the innovate quality of design thinking and extends the concept of a “designerly way of thinking” to a project-based course called “Design and Application of Intelligent Electronic Systems,”. e use Brown’s five characteristics of design thinkers—empathy, integrative thinking, optimism, experimentalism, and collaboration (Brown 2008)—to develop a systematic account of the creative thinking-in-action approach to problem solving for this cross-engineering-and-design project. This study also discusses how the concept-knowledge (C-K) theory facilitates the development of techniques that will better harness the potential for innovation across disciplines. We discover that synthesizing methods can successfully harness both creative and rational activities, so that engineering students who work with design students can more easily adopt a designerly way of thinking and thus solve problems innovatively.

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