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

跨学科（99）生物启发设计（BID）的跨学科课程正在开发中，用于从工程和生物本科生中联合招收高水平本科生。 以生物世界为指导，学生们正在创造解决真实的世界问题的方案，这些问题一直受到传统工程方法的影响。 总体课程目标是：1）制定教学BID的策略，促进生物科学家和工程师在其教育生涯的早期阶段之间的合作。 2)确定和检查BID在各个领域的案例研究，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从业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。 4)让科学家和工程师熟悉那些可以通过生物学方法解决的挑战。该课程正在通过交叉列出生物学和几个工程专业来整合到生物学和工程课程中。 交叉列表消除了实现毕业要求的障碍，因为它是一个上师选修课，并提供了对毕业的任何其他选修上师学科课程相同的贡献。

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.