Keywords

ideation metrics, novelty, variety, quality, quantity, engineering design

Data Set Description Summary

This data set includes the ideation results of an experiment in ideation effectiveness, along with tools for analyzing the quality of the ideation.

All ideas generated by 15 teams of BYU students are included in the database. The ideas have been placed into an OPED genealogy tree format. The quality of all the ideas has been evaluated. The novelty of one team's ideas has been evaluated.

Instructions for performing the OPED organization, evaluating quality, and evaluating novelty are included in the data workbook.

Software tools to aggregate the individual evaluations into team scores and to display the results of the evaluations in the form of PDF representations of the OPED trees are included.

Instructions for installing and executing the software tools are also included.

Document Type

Data

Publication Date

2025-05-29

Data Collection Start Date

2-2022

Data Collection End Date

12-2022

Language

English

Funding Information

United States Air Force Academy, FA7000-21-2-0007.

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering

Department

Mechanical Engineering

University Standing at time of data collection

Full Professor

Data Files
AirportA1.csv (3 kB)
One team evaluated data
AirportA1ExampleTree.pdf (85 kB)
PDF representation of design tree
AirportRatingsWorkbook.xlsm (223 kB)
Collection of Design Ideas
ConceptTreeTecTac.py (56 kB)
Python classes for Design Tree evaluation
import-csv-notectac.py (13 kB)
Tool for importing CSV files for calculations
process-CSVS-notectac.sh (1 kB)
Shell script for processing multiple team data
process-one-CSV-notectac.sh (1 kB)
Shell script for processing single team data
README.txt (4 kB)
Brief instructions

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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