Abstract: CBID at GT brings together a group of interdisciplinary biologists, engineers and physical scientists who seek to facilitate research and education for innovative products and techniques based on biologically-inspired design solutions. Biologically inspired design can be used to develop new materials, new sensing and locomotory system, more efficient chemical processes, and more environmentally conscious design and manufacturing systems. This unique method trains scientists and engineers and designers to ask, ‘what problems does this biological system solve?’ The goal of the Center is to facilitate, develop infrastructure for, and promote interdisciplinary research and education. The participants of CBID at GT believe that science and technology are increasingly hitting the limits of approaches based on traditional disciplines, and Biology may serve as an untapped resource for design methodology, with concept-testing having occurred over millions of years of evolution. Experiencing the benefits of Nature as a source of innovative and inspiring principles encourages us to preserve and protect the natural world rather than simply to harvest its products.
Bio: Jeannette Yen is the Director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID at GT) along with co-directors Marc Weissburg, Craig Tovey, Bert Bras and Ashok Goel. Yen’s Ph.D. is in biological oceanography where she studies how fluid mechanical and chemical cues transported at low Re flow serve as communication channels for aquatic organisms, primarily plankton: the base of aquatic food webs. She is a Professor in the School of Biology and has been at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2000.
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