In each case, we present examples demonstrating nature's design and subsequent parallel advances in biomimetic materials and polymer sciences, combining interdisciplinary engineering principles to mimic nature inspired designs into fabrics.
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.
Johnson (2013) defines STEM as "an instructional approach, which integrates the teaching of science and mathematics disciplines through the infusion of the practices of scientific inquiry, technological and engineering design, mathematical analysis, and 21st century interdisciplinary themes and skills" (pg. 367).
This paper presents results of an ongoing interdisciplinary study to develop a computational theory of creativity for engineering design.
The Biodigital Architecture and Genetics is the field where we began to work, exploring questions through interdisciplinary endeavors involving fields such as material science, biology, genetics, art, architecture, civil engineering, design, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.
I was doing engineering design.
We are exploring knowledge frontiers… And for really arriving to knowledge frontiers one main interdisciplinary cross-point is where genetics meets biology & digital, applied to architecture in our case (and also applied to art, civil engineering, design).
(Engineering Design, Berkeley, USA).
Finally, engineering design-based experiences can be used not only to facilitate interdisciplinary connections, but these types of experiences have been found to deepen conceptual understanding in other disciplines, like science (Kolodner et al. 2003; Mehalik et al. 2008; Bethke Wendell and Rogers 2013).
I do engineering, I design monuments, I design buildings.
