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Aims:
The module aims to illustrate and empower you to apply fundamental engineering principles to achieve higher performance (efficiency, scalability, robustness, etc.), and come up with innovative approaches, to solve challenging problems by taking guidance from natural systems that are ideally structured to achieve this high performance.
Synopsis:
Nature-inspired solutions teaches you how to learn from solutions adopted by nature to solve challenges that have a parallel in engineering and product design. The module illustrates and empowers you to apply fundamental scientific and engineering principles, underpinning desirable properties observed in nature, to achieve higher performance (efficiency, scalability, robustness, etc.) and identify innovative approaches to solve challenging problems by taking inspiration from natural systems that are ideally structured to achieve this high performance. Using a mechanistic, systematic approach allows proper accounting for the typically different contexts of nature and technology, to design effective engineering solutions.
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Understand the fundamentals of the nature-inspired solutions (NIS) methodologies;
- Implement fundamental principles, borrowed from natural systems, to innovate product design and solve engineering problems;
- Recognize situations where a NIS approach might bring up a new, more performing solution;
- Solve engineering problems by employing the NIS toolbox.
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Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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