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BiSSL director Dr. Astrid Layton was invited to give a research seminar to the INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group. Abstract: Inspiration from nature has produced some fascinating, novel, and life-changing solutions for the human world. Most of these bio-inspired designs however have been product based. Taking a systems perspective when we look to nature taps…
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Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy (TEX-E) is a first-of-a-kind collaboration among The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Rice University, and Prairie View A&M University—powered by Greentown Labs and MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship—to create a powerful student-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem in Texas. More information can be found here: https://greentownlabs.com/tex-e/
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BiSSL director Dr. Astrid Layton will be presenting BiSSL work as part of the Fitchburg State Visionaries in Engineering & Technology speaker series. Her talk is titled “Learning from Nature’s Systems to Achieve Waste Equals Food.”
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“Fashioning an engineering education via discipline and design” by Grace Dalton.
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Hadear has been awarded the 2023 Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for teaching! Each year they select a group of graduate students to receive the Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Awards in one of two categories: Excellence in Research-Doctoral and Excellence in Teaching-Master’s and Doctoral. Student nominations arrive from faculty advisors or departments,…
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We’re happy to share that 3 BiSSL papers, written by 4 BiSSL researcher students, have been accepted for publication and presentation in Boston, MA in August at IDETC-CIE 2023. BiSSL alum Samuel Blair, in collaboration with our Georgia Tech partners Dr. Julie Linsey and Claire Crose, has a paper accepted to the Design Theory and…
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This special issue in the IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering seeks original papers to form a well-established body of knowledge on resilience in systems engineering and to aid in the pathfinding for innovative and long-term research. Extended Deadline, April 15. Guest editors include Drs. Astrid Layton (Texas A&M), Karen Marais (Purdue), Payuna Uday (Stevens). Topics under…
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Thursday, 9am-3:30pm CDT Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) is hosting a “Network Science Workshop” organized by Dr. Nate Veldt , assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. The workshop is in person at Blocker 220. To register for the event, please click here. Dr. Astrid Layton of the BiSSL group will be presenting as an invited speaker…
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It’s great to see Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) work in collaboration with Drs. Abheek Chatterjee, Ph.D. and Richard Malak on bio-inspired systems/systems of systems design for resilience getting some attention via INCOSE! You can check out the paper online: “Ecology-inspired resilient and affordable system of systems using degree of system order” https://lnkd.in/e6rKq-5Z
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BiSSL head Dr. Astrid Layton was chosen as a recipient of the Texas A&M University College of Engineering Excellence Award for Teaching! It was truly an honor to receive this award at the Engineering Faculty Awards Banquet last week in front of so many friends and colleagues. The award is meant to recognize excellence in teaching amongst…