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Biologically Inspired Design: Process and Products by Michael Helms; Swaroop S. Vattam; Ashok K. Goel is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.

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Biologically inspired engineering design uses analogies to biological systems to develop solutions for engineering problems. We conducted a study of biologically inspired design in the context of an interdisciplinary introductory course on biologically inspired engineering design in Fall of 2006. The goals of this study were to understand the process of biologically inspired engineering design and to provide insight into biologically inspired design as a type of design activity. This paper provides a descriptive account of biologically inspired design processes and products, and summarizes our main observations: 1) designers use two distinct starting points for biologically inspired design; 2) regular patterns of practice emerge in biologically inspired design; and 3) certain errors occur regularly in the design process.

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Author

Michael Helms; Swaroop S. Vattam; Ashok K. Goel

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0142-694X)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)