Psychology of Creativity and Innovation in Engineering and Business Curriculum

The paper describes the development of a new course. Psychology of innovation, which is in the process of being approved as an elective course for four different majors: engineering, business, psychology, and art. The paper describes the course content, course educational objective, weekly assignments and projects. The new course is expected to be approved and implemented in the Fall 2021 Semester. The Course is expected to strengthen innovative potential of students from four different majors.

Conceptual Foreknowings: Integrative Review of Feeling Overwhelmed

Feeling overwhelmed is a universal humanuniverse living experience of living quality. From the humanbecoming perspective, all individuals choose to feel overwhelmed or not as they make choices moment to moment. Thus, it is of importance to understand feeling overwhelmed from divergent perspectives. To achieve this, the author in this article reviews the extant literature on feeling overwhelmed from the disciplines of nursing, business, psychology, philosophy, theology, social work, education, and sociology. Three themes that emerged from the extant literature were (a) feeling overwhelmed arises as an engulfing turbulence, (b) feeling overwhelmed surfaces with disquiet isolation, and (c) feeling overwhelmed emerges with reaching for relief.