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February 10, 2026 Ph.D. student Hadear Hassan joined our group in Fall 2021 after graduating with a BS in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. As of Tuesday this week she has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! Her thesis is titled “Quantitative System Analysis of Efficiency and Resilience in Complex Systems: Manufacturing and Innovation Networks”…
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January 30, 2026 Ph.D. student Emily Payne joined the BiSSL group in Spring 2022 while she was still an undergraduate Architectural Engineering student. On January 30th she successfully defended her Mechanical Engineering PhD. Her Ph.D. thesis work is titled “Learning from Biological Ecosystems to Design and Analyze Resilience in Complex Multi-flow Systems” and has produced…
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Feb. 15, March 22, and April 19 Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas The BiSSL group will be hosting a Walk Like an Engineer program with College Station, TX local Lick Creek Park and Gary Halter Nature Center. The events combine learning about the local nature and engineering design, introducing the concept of bio-inspired engineering…
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February 2-6, 2026 Paris, France The BiSSL group was at the 19th SIG Design Theory Workshop and the 10th SIG Tutorial on Design Theory at the Paris School of Mines. The workshop covered contributions in the areas of the Design Theory SIG:
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December 2025 A huge congratulations to BiSSL graduate student Namrata Thakkar, who graduated with her MS degree in mechanical engineering this fall! Namrata started in the BiSSL group Summer 2023, after completing her Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Pandit Deendayal Energy University. Her thesis was on measuring the resilience of water network designs using bio-inspired…
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November 14, 2026 Congratulations to BiSSL Ph.D. student Pepito Thelly, one of 7 Ph.D. finalists in the Texas A&M 2025 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Final! He was selected out of over 85 participants. Pepito, a student in Dr. Astrid Layton’s Bio-inspired Systems Lab who’s bio-inspired design research has collaborated with Dr. Julie Linsey and her…
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August 18, 2025 Anaheim, CA BiSSL Ph.D. candidate Hadear Hassan led the publication of an IDETC-CIE conference paper titled “Potential for Digital Technologies & Additive Manufacturing to Support Lean Manufacturing + Circular Economy Synergies” in collaboration with Aarhus University Ph.D. student (and former BiSSL MS student) Amira Bushagour and Dr. Abheek Chatterjee, who is a…
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August 18, 2025 Anaheim, CA At IDETC-CIE 2025, Dr. Layton was awarded the 2025 Early Career Award by Design Theory and Methodology in the Design Engineering Division by ASME. The award was given “For exemplary early-career contributions to research, education, and service in Design Theory and Methodology, advancing knowledge of bio-inspired network-based approaches to sustainability,…
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August 17, 2025 Anaheim, CA This year at the ASME IDETC-CIE 2025 conference Dr. Layton served as an invited panelist in the CIE divisions “Women in CIE” panel Sunday night. The CIE Division hosted a one-hour networking event at the 2025 IDETC-CIE on Sunday, August 17, from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM, including a reception.…
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June 26, 2025 Ph.D. student Hadear Hassan presented research on a dynamic model that uses bio-inspired design principles to evaluate manufacturing systems for sustainability and resilience, especially under disturbances, while linking system qualities to performance metrics like capital cost and demand met at the 2025 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), hosted by Clemson University…
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BiSSL: Bio-inspired Systems Lab 