STAFF PROFILE
Professor Iouri Belski
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Electronic and Telecommunications Eng
Phone:
99252984
Email:
iouri.belski@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Areas of research and consulting expertise
- Engineering problem solving including the Theory of Inventive problem Solving (TRIZ): practice and cognitive foundations
- Design creativity and design thinking
- Acquisition of expertise in engineering
- Novel educational technologies
Consultancies on thinking and problem-solving
- Australia: Honeywell, Bosch, Energy Australia, Kraft, R. M. Williams, The Government of South Australia, Shefenacker Vision Systems, Monash Accident Research Centre, Department of State and Regional Development (NSW), Masterfoods
- Austria: Appliances Components Companies
- Singapore: Becton Dickinson, Singapore Technologies Engineering, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, National Institute of Education, DSO National Laboratories, Ministry of Defence, Republic Polytechnic
- USA: University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), North Carolina State University (Rayleigh, NC)
Awards
- 2009 - Australian Award for Teaching Excellence (Physical Sciences and Related Studies)
- 2009 - TRIZ Master (MATRIZ Diploma No 75)
- 2007 - The Inaugural RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award
- 2006 - Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning: “For the creation of innovative methodologies and imaginative resources which help students in enhancing thinking and problem-solving skills”
- 2005 - SET Portfolio Teaching Award – Scholarship of Teaching
- 2005 - RMIT Certificate of Achievement – Scholarship of Teaching
- 2004 - RMIT University Teaching Award – Student Centred Teaching – HE
- 2004 - SET Portfolio Special Commendation for Student-Centred Teaching
- 1988 to 1991 - The Best Inventor, “PHONON” Corporation, Moscow, Russia
- 1984 to 1986 - The Best Young Scientist, “PHONON” Corporation, Moscow, Russia
- 1985 to 1989 - PhD in Physics (semiconductors and dielectrics) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia.
- 1975 to 1981 - BEng (First Class Honours), Automation and Electronics. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia.
Employment history
- From 1996 - Professor. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
- 1992 to 1993 - Head, Department of Innovations. Russian-USA Joint Venture “TECOM“, Moscow, Russia
- 1980 to 1992 - Principal Research Scientist, Project Leader and Project Deputy Leader, “PHONON“ Scientific Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Professional and honorary memberships
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
- International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ)
- Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE)
- Golden Key International Honour Society: “For contribution to tertiary education at RMIT, guidance and encouragement to students for lateral thinking and devotion to the development in the area of engineering“
- Belski, I.,Skiadopoulos, A.,Aranda-Mena, G.,Cascini, G.,Russo, D. (2019). Engineering Creativity: The Influence of General Knowledge and Thinking Heuristics In: Advances in Systematic Creativity, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland
- Valentine, A.,Belski, I.,Hamilton, M.,Adams, S. (2019). (In Press) Creativity in Electrical Engineering Degree Programs: Where Is the Content? In: IEEE Transactions on Education, , 1 - 9
- Steger, F.,Arbesmeier, A.,Nitsche, A.,Brade, K.,Schweiger, H.,Belski, I. (2019). Laboratory learning: influence of the perceived laboratory mode on learning outcomes In: Proceedings of the 47th SEFI Annual Conference, Budapest, 16-20 September 2019
- Steger, F.,Nitsche, A.,Brade, K.,Belski, I.,Schweiger, H. (2018). Energiespeicher-Praktikum an der TH Ingolstadt: Reale versus simulierte Experimente In: Proceedings of Forum der Lehre: Digitale Akzente Setzen, Ingolstadt, Germany, 16 April 2018
- Valentine, A.,Belski, I.,Hamilton, M. (2018). Development of Creativity of Engineering Students: A Cause for Concern? In: Proceedings of the 125th American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 24-27 June 2018
- Smith, J.,Belski, I.,Brown, N.,Kalyvas, J. (2018). Can One Class Hour Improve Creative Problem Solving Self-efficacy In: Proceedings of 29th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2018), Hamilton, New Zealand, 9-12 December 2018
- Belski, I. (2018). Nurturing creative engineering graduates by embedding creativity heuristics into existing subjects In: Proceedings of the 46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark, 17-21 September 2018
- Belski, I.,Belski, R. (2018). Are We Fit to Graduate Creative Professionals? In: Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2018), Wollongong, Australia, 4-7 December 2018
- Belski, I.,Cavallucci, D.,Hentschel, C.,Hiltmann, K.,Huber, N.,Koltze, K.,Livotov, P.,Shukhmin, K.,Thurnes, C. (2018). Sustainable Education in Inventive Problem Solving with TRIZ and Knowledge-Based Innovation at Universities In: TRIZ Future Conference 2018: Professional Proceedings, Strasbourg, France, 29-31 October 2018
- Buskes, G.,Belski, I. (2018). ATAR, Prior Knowledge and Performance in Idea Generation In: 29th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2017), Hamilton, New Zealand, 9-12 December 2018
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Current Supervisions3 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
Engineering problem-solving, engineering creativity, systems thinking, novice to expert transformation, engineering education, technology-enhanced education, educational feedback, diagnostic assessment.
- Educating the Edisons of the 21st Century: embedding tools of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) into the engineering curriculum. Funded by: Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Fellowships Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2020)
- Building Information Modelling: Methods and Applications to link Post Occupancy Evaluation to Architectural Programming.. Funded by: RMIT Emerging Researcher Grants from (2008 to 2009)