Publications and examples of my work are presented below. Please contact me if you would like more information.

BOOKS

• Rotten Gambler Two Becomes a True American. This is a story of how a biracial child, penniless, with little formal education, hardly speaking English, and without a clue of how to go about it, got to America and pursued the American dream. More Information
  
  
• Entrepreneurship from Creativity to Innovation: Thinking Skills for a Changing World. This book will show you how to learn to think more creatively and to solve problems more effectively. You will discover the knowledge needed to meet the challenges of entrepreneurship and innovation through models and techniques, individual and team exercises, tips, action plans, how-to lists, references and web sites. More information
   
• Creative Problem Solving and Engineering Design. This book incorporates a strong focus on innovative thinking, teamwork, and communications in engineering design. It responds to the needs of industry for engineers who have these foundational skills and to the ABET Criteria 2000 which require that students are able to work on multidisciplinary teams and understand the global context of engineering. More Information (PDF Format)

• CD with PowerPoint Slides Lecture slides for most topics covered in the two books listed above are available upon request to instructors who are adopting the book for their students. Additional material (such as syllabi) are also included:

Please specify which book and e-mail your request to mlumsdaine@comcast.net (with copy to lumsdain@mtu.edu).

• Pugh Method Example: Design of a Car Horn (PDF Format) Round 1 only. Note: This replaces the information that used to be on our former website: EngineeringCreativity.com.

• Pugh Method Example: Improved Kitchen Lighting (PDF Format) This shows a three-round example with discussion, suitable for engineering students (it is included in the entrepreneurship book above).

• Thinking Preferences of Engineering Students: Implications for Curriculum Restructuring (PDF Format) Journal of Engineering Education, April 1995, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 193-2004

• Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers (PDF Format) 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 3554

• Educating Designers on Design via Distance Learning (PDF Format) 2005 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 1625

• Creative Problem Solving in Capstone Design (PDF Format)
  ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007

• Improving the Quality of Senior Design Project Reports (PDF Format)
  ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008

• Forming and Managing Project Teams in a Large Capstone Design Class (PDF Format), ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, June 2009.