Inspiring Engineering in the K12: Biomimicry As a Bridge Between Math and Biology
Inspiring Engineering in the K12: Biomimicry As a Bridge Between Math and Biology
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K12 中的启发工程：仿生学作为数学和生物学之间的桥梁
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2019
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T. Impelluso
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Fredrik Sanne;Inge Risheim;T. Impelluso
仿生学这一学科鼓励工程师从地球上首次出现生命以来近40亿年的研究和开发中获得设计灵感--大自然是最伟大的工程设计师。这个项目没有利用仿生学作为一门学科(无论如何，这都是一种有价值的方法)，而是将仿生学作为一种工具来探索，以激励K12学生欣赏数学和工程学。我们在四个课程模块和一个实验中进行了这个项目。在第一个模块中，我们介绍了各种类型的工程。在第二章中，我们从定性的角度介绍了数学的某些方面。在第三节中，我们讨论了支撑热力学的基本数学，尽管是定性的和直观的。在第四节，我们向学生们介绍了仿生学的世界。然后，我们将数学和仿生学与定量设计的实验室经验结合起来，这是从NSF赞助的一个项目中借来的。总而言之，仿生学的努力要么存在于多相物理的定量领域，要么存在于生物解释的定性领域。然而，我们把它作为通向科学、数学和工程的桥梁。
The discipline of biomimicry encourages engineers to take design inspiration from the nearly four billion years of research and development since life first appeared on Earth — nature is the greatest engineering designer. Rather than leveraging biomimicry as a discipline unto itself (a worthy approach, regardless), this project explores biomimicry as a tool to inspire K12 students to appreciate math and engineering. We conducted this project in four lesson modules and one lab. In the first module, we presented various types of engineering. In the second, we introduced certain aspects of mathematics from a qualitative perspective. In the third, we discussed the fundamental mathematics that undergirds thermodynamics, although qualitatively and visually. In the fourth, we introduced the students to the world of biomimicry. Then we integrated the mathematics and biomimicry with a laboratory experience in quantitative design, borrowed from an NSF sponsored project. In summary, efforts in biomimicry reside at either the quantitative arena of multi-phase physics, or the qualitative arena of biological interpretations. However, we have used it as a bridge to science, math and engineering.