Bio inspired design is a cross functional course where small groups of five students from different disciplines collaborate to solve human problems using the millions of years of bioligical optimization.
Bio inspired design involves breaking down human problems into component functions. Next thurough research is needed to find an biological organism that has optimized the functions needed through millions of years of evolution. The optimized function is then tranferred to and perfected through design and engineering to solve the human problem.
Project Goals:
Find a human problem without a fully optimized solution and organizms that potentially contain a solution by using the same functional matrix. Using functional decomposition, create a solution from the biological learnings.
Duration: Full Semester
Team: Ryan Cortes, John Monaghan, Rob Stout, Lauryn Wright, Julie Yan
Course: Bio Inspired Design
