Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats

Dr. Marjan Eggermont is a Teaching Professor and faculty member at the University of Calgary in the Mechanical and Manufacturing department of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. She is also the Academic Director for Sustainable Engineering. Dr. Eggermont teaches in the areas of graphics, engineering design, visualization, and biomimicry. She co-founded and designs Zygote Quarterly (ZQ), an online journal to provide a platform to showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news, and articles. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Curriculum Innovation Award. She is a former board member of the American Society of Engineering Education. Dr. Vikram Shyam is an adjunct professor at the University of Akron in the Mechanical Engineering department. He is also a research aerospace engineer who works as a futurist for NASA. He is the founder of the Virtual Interchange for Nature-Inspired Exploration (V.I.N.E.) at NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center. His interests include artificial intelligence, biomimicry, innovation design and futurology. Dr. Shyam is the recipient of NASA’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Aloysius F. Hepp is Chief Technologist at Nanotech Innovations and an independent consultant based in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a PhD in Inorganic Photochemistry in 1983 from MIT and retired in December 2016 from the Photovoltaic & Electrochemical Systems Branch of the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland). He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University from 1992–3. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal in 1997. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Albany and Cleveland State University. Dr. Hepp has co-authored nearly 200 publications (including six patents) focused on processing of thin film and nanomaterials for I–III–VI solar cells, Li-ion batteries, integrated power devices and flight experiments, and precursors and spray pyrolysis deposition of sulfides and carbon nanotubes. He has co-edited twelve books on advanced materials processing, energy conversion and electronics, biomimicry, and aerospace technologies. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (MSSP) and is currently the chair of the International Advisory Board of MSSP, as well as serving on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Mater. Sci. and Engin. B and Heliyon. He has recently been appointed as Series Editor for the Vacuum and Thin-Film Deposition Technologies series and the Aerospace Fundamentals, Applications, and Exploration series.

• A Biomimicry Education and Innovation1. Biom*: On becoming a teachable discipline2. Introduction to bioinspired materials: Design, processing and applications3. The Pattern Alphabet: Nature’s Patterns are the Language of Spatial Reasoning and Biomimicry4. Material Culture, Design Studies, and Human Ecology: A Bio-centered Perspective 5. Inspiration from Paleomimetics: Fossil does not Equal FailureB Systems Engineering and Computer Applications 6. Biomimicry for bone and hybrid composites and the use of machine learning in hierarchical design7. Animal Engineering8. Sample digitization techniques for bio-inspired engineering9. Assessment of an ant-inspired algorithm for path planningC Materials, Innovation and Manufacturing 10. Functional synergy of biomimicry and additive manufacturing: Towards a bio-enhanced engineering approach11. Smart Textiles through Bio-Inspired Innovation12. Polymerization in Nature Yields Clues to Innovation in Additive Manufacturing13. Biomimetic self-cleaning surfaces: Synthesis, mechanism and applications14. Biomimicry Launchpad: Bringing Biomimetic Innovation to MarketD Architecture and Habitation 15. Morphological Differentiation for the Environmental Adaptation of Biomimetic Buildings: Skins, Surfaces, Structures16. Biomimetic roofing: Moisture dissipation from leaf-shape shingles17. Design studies and applications of Mycelium biocomposites in architecture18. Green Harbors Project: Biomimicry in Action