Adrian,
Is any biomimetics going on in Engineering Science?
Tony
On Sep 19 2011, Adrian Thomas wrote:
> Oxford has elements of biomimetics in two of the third year modules
> (scattered through the module lectures where appropriate, perhaps
> amounting to a total equivalent to 8 lectures). We regularly have
> explicitly biomimetic research projects, either dealing with sensors and
> control (Graham Taylor), aerodynamics or hydrodynamics (me) or materials
> (especially silks: Vollrath).
>
>Cheers,
>Adrian
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>On 19 Sep 2011, at 11:35, Julian Vincent wrote:
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>> How many places are there in the UK which can offer some sort of
>> education in in biomimetics (=biomimicry/bionics/bio-inspired design . .
>> . )? Bath university has a whole lecture course in the last year of its
>> engineering course and offers various projects in the area. I suspect
>> much the same can be said of Reading. Cambridge engineering offers a
>> substantial lecture series (Michelle Oyen). As far as I know, for the
>> rest of the UK the students can do a project in the area, or there may
>> be a lecture or two, but that's it. What do you say to anyone who wants
>> to have some education in the area?
>>
>> Julian Vincent
>> University of Bath
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>Adrian L.R. Thomas,
>Professor of Biomechanics,
>University of Oxford,
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