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Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental
Engineering at S&T


Jeff Thomas’ obsession with

creative (design) cognition


Our students should

be as familiar with

the creative process

as any artist.





Contact at jthomas@mst.edu or (573) 341
-
4271



3+ albums


40 original songs


215 performances


custom musical


equipment


500 poems


100 paintings


2 quilts


? carvings

design in nature


structural
biomimetics

•

load
-
influenced growth

•

biomechanical mapping

•

high
-
order helical architecture

•

force/photon transport


unit map

design in engineering


modeling, prototyping

•

line, surface, solid, structural, physical


cellular

construction

•

small, simple elements; modular


arrangement

•

solo
-
fabricated, erected, financed

•

minimal waste

•

R60/60/60


design in education


Bloom’s taxonomy of learning

•

create
←

where we should teach & assess

•

evaluate
(optimize)

•

analyze
(compare)

•

apply
←

where we teach & assess

•

understand

•

remember



8 class web sites

•

5538 + 7744 students

•

8150 pages

•

282 videos

•

2615 example problems

•

29,100 images














1996
-
2008

2009
-
2011

20,016 graded


exam questions

122,790 graded exam


questions

145 categories

14,915 online hours

1600 cities