In 1989, 1990 and 1991 the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) sponsored a two‐week summer workshop on “Integration of Creativity into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum” at Stanford University. As part of a demonstration of individual differences in information‐seeking and decision‐making, the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI) were determined at the beginning and end of the workshop for 22 of the participants and the 3 facilitators. From each MBTI score was computed a “Creativity Index” (CI) developed by the Institute for Personality Assessment (IPAR) from studies of several hundred creative people in various creative professions. On the average, the mean CI for the workshop participants increased, statistically significantly, from a number typical for engineering students to one more characteristic of practicing architects.
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Douglass J. Wilde (1993) studied this question.