Biologically !nspired Design: A novel interdisciplinary biology-engineering curriculum

生物启发设计：新颖的跨学科生物工程课程

• 批准号: 1022778
• 负责人: Jeannette Yen
• 金额: $ 59.94万
• 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: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022778&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biologically; nspired; Design; novel; interdisciplinary

Biologically-inspired design is an emerging field with considerable potential to provide innovative solutions to a variety of problems in human design and engineering. Biologists and engineers each face the problem of identifying design criteria, yet each discipline approaches design from a unique perspective. Through the adoption of a common language and a merging of perspectives, students exemplify the interdisciplinary process in overcoming the barriers that often inhibit true multidisciplinary collaborations. Through problem solving exercises, they learn how to use the design process to create biologically-based systems or prototypes that solve specific engineering problems and test hypothesized functions of biological properties. Employing classroom observations, in situ cognitive studies, experiments conducted in class, and detailed analysis of student design products, this project is focusing on five learning objectives: (1) novel techniques for creative design, (2) interdisciplinary communication skills, (3) knowledge about domains outside students' core training, (4) a uniquely interdisciplinary design process, and (5) techniques for applying existing technical knowledge to a new discipline. By treating nature as a respected mentor, a greater appreciation for the information found in natural systems promotes conservation and sustainability efforts to preserve biodiversity. Biologically inspired designs are efficient solutions to real-world problems.This project is also establishing assessment metrics to measure design education outcomes, and to empirically validate the degree of success of the BID education platform. This is being undertaken through evaluations of the project's key themes: creativity, communication, cross-domain knowledge transfer, and design skills. The evaluation work is also assessing student differences as functions of their backgrounds and, for group projects, as a function of the diversity of backgrounds.

以生物学灵感的设计是一个新兴领域，具有很大的潜力，可以为人类设计和工程中的各种问题提供创新的解决方案。生物学家和工程师都面临着识别设计标准的问题，但每门学科都从独特的角度接近设计。通过采用通用语言和融合观点，学生体现了克服经常抑制真正多学科合作的障碍的跨学科过程。通过解决问题的练习，他们学习了如何使用设计过程来创建基于生物学的系统或原型来解决特定的工程问题并测试生物学特性的假设功能。采用课堂观察，原位认知研究，课堂上进行的实验以及对学生设计产品的详细分析，该项目重点介绍了五个学习目标：（1）创造性设计的新颖技术，（2）跨学科沟通技巧，（3）有关学生在核心培训中的领域知识，（4）独特的跨跨学科设计过程和（4）对学科的设计和（5）技术，（5）技术和（5）技术和5）技术和5）技术。 通过将自然视为受人尊敬的导师，对自然系统中发现的信息的更加欣赏促进了保护和可持续性努力，以保护生物多样性。以生物学启发的设计是现实世界中问题的有效解决方案。该项目还建立了评估指标来衡量设计教育成果，并在经验上验证了BID教育平台的成功程度。这是通过评估项目的主要主题来实现的：创造力，沟通，跨域知识转移和设计技能。评估工作还在评估学生的差异作为其背景的功能，对于小组项目，作为背景多样性的函数。