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

跨学科(99)正在开发生物启发设计(BID)跨学科课程，以联合招收工程学和生物学本科生中的高水平本科生。以生物体世界为指导，学生们正在创造解决现实世界问题的方法，这些问题一直受制于传统的工程方法。课程的总体目标是：1)制定教学策略，促进生物科学家和工程师在其教育生涯的早期阶段进行合作。2)确定和审查不同领域的投标案例研究，以确定共同的原则和方法，并确定需要生物启发设计的不同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，促进将生物学原理融入工程设计。4)让科学家和工程师熟悉生物启发方法所带来的挑战。这门课程正在被整合到生物和工程课程中，交叉列出了生物学和几个工程专业的课程。这一交叉名单正在消除完成毕业要求的障碍，因为它是一门高级选修课，对毕业的贡献与任何其他高级选修课的贡献相同。

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.