Bioinspired Design Lab

Important Dates

Operational July 2015

Formal Inauguration by our Honourable Chancellor on 04.02.2016

Courses managed in the lab

Biology for Engineers –University Core - Lab component

Bioinspired Design –University Elective –Project component

Product design and development activities

• • State level product ideation and design Make-a-thon for UG students “Bio-Inspired Design: Summer Fest 2016” on 21st-23rd April 2016.

  • State level product ideation and design competitions for UG students, and related workshops “Bio-Inspired Design: Summer Fest 2017” on 21st-22nd April 2017. 

  • Intra-school product design challenge “Medico-Environmental Product-a-thon” held on 21st March 2018.

  • Health related product development Make-a-thon "Healthathon" organized in collaboration with ITT labs, Siemens Healthineers, Held on 5th October 2018 in VIT.

  • Bioinspired product design workshop and prototype development competition in Bioinspired Design Fest 2019 organized in collaboration with Biomimicry India, held on March 2019 in VIT Vellore campus. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Prashant Dhawan and Mrs. Seema Anand, founders of Biomimicry India.

  • Bioinspired product design lecture and prototype development Makeathon in Bioinspired Design Fest 2020  held on 11th March 2020 in VIT Vellore campus. Lectures were delivered by Prof. Jayachandra Bingi, IIITDM Kancheepuram and Prof. Sultan Haider, Siemens Healthineers, GMbH, Germany.

  • International virtual conference on Bioinspired Design and Engineering (BIDE) 2020 held on 27th-28th June 2020

  • International virtual "Bioinspired Design Fest 2021 (BIDFest)" held on 11th of April 2021. The event comprised of expert lectures including, Prof. Sultan Haider, Siemens Healthineers, GMbH, Germany,  Dr. Swaroop Ganguly, IIT Bombay and Dr. Shyamanta Moni Hazarika, IIT Guwahati.  The fest also include an ideathon event.

  • The Bioinspired Design Fest 2022 (BIDFest2022) held on 13th March 2022, was in a hybrid mode. Few students participated the event offline and some joined online. It included online lecture workshop by Mr. Shiva Subramaniam and Ms. Mrinalini, Founders of Biomimicry Compass. Offline lecture by Mr. Tharun Kumar, Co-founder and CEO of ECOSTP. Finally an one day Ideathon event.

  • The Bioinspired Design Fest 2023 (BIDFest2023) held on 21st of March 2023. It was the first completely offline BIDFest after the pandemic. The event included lecture workshops from biomimicry experts like, Mr. Deepak Rajmohan, CEO, GreenPods Labs, and Dr. Uttam Mrinal Pal, IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai. This is followed by 24 hour make-a-thon, held in the TT gallery II, VIT-Vellore campus.