An Engineering-to-Biology Thesaurus for Engineering Design
An Engineering-to-Biology Thesaurus for Engineering Design
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工程设计的工程生物学同义词库
DOI：
10.1115/detc2010-28233
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发表时间：
2010
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D. McAdams
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作者：
J. K. Nagel;R. Stone;D. McAdams
工程设计被认为是一个创造性的领域，涉及许多活动，最终目标是实现一个目的的新产品。利用系统的方法或工具来帮助设计过程被认为是工业界和学术界的标准做法。这些工具用于许多设计活动（即，想法生成、概念生成、灵感搜索、功能建模）并且可以跨越工程学科，科学（即，生物学、化学）或非工程领域（即，医学），总体重点是鼓励创造性的工程设计。然而，工程师们一直在努力利用周围自然世界中的大量生物信息。通常是因为存在知识差距或术语困难，学习和理解生物学所需的时间不可行。本文提出了一个工程生物学辞典，提供工程师，有限的生物学背景，利用自然的独创性的工具。同义词辅助设计过程的许多步骤，并增加了创造性，类比设计的可能性。生物学术语在词库相关的工程领域通过配对的同义功能或流术语的功能基础词典，支持功能建模和抽象表示的任何功能系统。本文中介绍的词库版本是三个独立研究成果的集成，其中包括来自俄勒冈州州立大学、多伦多大学和印度科学研究所及其工业合作伙伴的研究。长期的整合和最终结果的整体方法。应用领域的设计灵感，生物信息的理解，功能建模，创新设计和概念生成进行了讨论。
Engineering design is considered a creative field that involves many activities with the end goal of a new product that fulfills a purpose. Utilization of systematic methods or tools that aid in the design process is recognized as standard practice in industry and academia. The tools are used for a number of design activities (i.e., idea generation, concept generation, inspiration searches, functional modeling) and can span across engineering disciplines, the sciences (i.e., biology, chemistry) or a non-engineering domain (i.e., medicine), with an overall focus of encouraging creative engineering designs. Engineers, however, have struggled with utilizing the vast amount of biological information available from the natural world around them. Often it is because there is a knowledge gap or terminology is difficult, and the time needed to learn and understand the biology is not feasible. This paper presents an engineering-to-biology thesaurus that affords engineers, with limited biological background, a tool for leveraging nature’s ingenuity. The thesaurus aids in many steps of the design process and increases the probability of a creative, analogical design. Biological terms in the thesaurus are correlated to the engineering domain through pairing with a synonymous function or flow term of the Functional Basis lexicon, which supports functional modeling and abstract representation of any functioning system. The version of the thesaurus presented in this paper represents an integration of three independent research efforts, which include research from Oregon State University, the University of Toronto, and the Indian Institute of Science, and their industrial partners. The overall approach for term integration and the final results are presented. Applications to the areas of design inspiration, comprehension of biological information, functional modeling, creative design and concept generation are discussed.