Course Description
Why are things in nature shaped the way they are? How
do birds fly? Why do bird nests look the way they do?
How do woodpeckers peck? These are the types of
questions Dr. Lorna Gibson's freshman seminar at MIT
has been investigating. We invite you to explore with
us.
Questions such as these are the subject of biomimetic
research. When engineers copy the shapes found in
nature we call it Biomimetics. The word biomimic comes
from bio, as in biology and mimetic, which means to
copy
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Materials-Science-and-Engineering/3-A24Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm
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