LS C30Z / Integrative Biology C32
Bio-inspired Design
Biological Science
Bioinspired design views the process of how we learn from Nature as an innovation strategy translating principles of function, performance and aesthetics from biology to human technology. The creative design process is driven by interdisciplinary exchange among engineering, biology, art, architecture and business. Diverse teams of students will collaborate on, create, and present original bioinspired design projects. Lectures discuss biomimicry, challenges of extracting principles from Nature, scaling, robustness, and entrepreneurship through case studies highlighting robots that run, fly, and swim, materials like gecko-inspired adhesives, artificial muscles, medical prosthetic devices, and translation to start-ups.
Distinguished Teaching Award
Terms Offered
- Spring 2023
- Spring 2022
- Spring 2021
- Spring 2020
- Spring 2019
- Spring 2018
- Spring 2017
This course did a great job at showing me the joys of science. As a humanities student, when I take science classes I often feel overwhelmed and intimidated, but this course included everyone! It made me recognize that science can be super fun.
Professor Full inspires us to do our own research on how to make our individual worlds a better place, and motivates us to be creative to solve different types of problems.
Professor Full is fascinating, inspiring, and a god within bio–inspired design. He's humble and wrote half the research papers he references, and he's worked with boston dynamics directly. Very inspiring to learn from someone spearheading an entire field!
The course was super accessible to non–stem majors, but still super informative and educational.