You cannot depend on it. The education of engineers is for 'competence'. Students must learn to do things the right way. Deviations are not encouraged. Society wants professional competence from engineers - not creativity.
Society wants things done competently in the usual fashion.
The risk factor is huge. If you think of a creative advertising campaign and it fails no one much cares. If you build a creative bridge and it collapses a lot of people care. The traditional mumbo-jumbo crazytivity approach to creativity is designed to put off engineers. Engineers now see the logic for creativity.