Biologically !nspired design: A Novel Interdisciplinary Biology-Engineering Curriculum

受生物学启发的设计：新颖的跨学科生物工程课程

• 批准号: 0737041
• 负责人: Jeannette Yen
• 金额: $ 12.1万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-11-15 至 2010-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737041&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biologically; nspired; design; Novel; Interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary (99) An interdisciplinary course of biologically inspired design (BID) is being developed for joint enrollment of upper level undergraduates from engineering and biology undergraduates. Using the organismal world as a guide, students are creating solutions to real world problems that have been subjected to traditional engineering methods. The overall course objectives are to: 1) Develop strategies for teaching BID that facilitate collaborations between biological scientists and engineers at the earliest phases of their educational careers. 2) Identify and examine case studies of BID in various fields as a way to identify common principles and approaches, and identify critical areas that require coordination among different practitioners of biologically-inspired design. 3) Devise project-based and problem-based exercises to bring together students in the fields of science, engineering, and design to facilitate the incorporation of biological principles into engineering design. 4) To familiarize scientists and engineers with challenges that are amenable to biologically-inspired approaches. The course is being integrated into both the biology and engineering curricula by cross listing it in biology and several engineering majors. The cross listing is removing barriers to the fulfillment of graduation requirements since it is an upper division elective and offers the same contribution toward graduation as any other elective upper division disciplinary course.

跨学科 (99) 正在开发生物启发设计跨学科课程（BID），供工程和生物学本科生联合招生的高年级本科生。 以有机体世界为指导，学生们正在为传统工程方法所遇到的现实世界问题创建解决方案。 课程的总体目标是： 1) 制定 BID 教学策略，促进生物科学家和工程师在教育生涯早期阶段的合作。 2) 确定和检查各个领域的 BID 案例研究，以此确定共同原则和方法，并确定需要不同生物启发设计实践者之间协调的关键领域。 3）设计基于项目和基于问题的练习，将科学、工程和设计领域的学生聚集在一起，以促进将生物学原理纳入工程设计中。 4) 让科学家和工程师熟悉受生物学启发的方法所面临的挑战。通过将其交叉列出在生物学和多个工程专业中，该课程正在被整合到生物学和工程课程中。 交叉列表正在消除满足毕业要求的障碍，因为它是高年级选修课，并且与任何其他选修高年级学科课程一样对毕业做出贡献。