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June 21-25, 2025 in Montreal, Canada Dr. Astrid Layton hosted a free workshop at the 2025 ASEE Conference & Exposition in collaboration with Dr. Julie Linsey from Georgia Tech. The NSF sponsored workshop was titled “Is My Makerspace Meeting Students’ Needs? How to gain quantitative information about your space using a student-tool network model” and…
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June 20, 2025 A paper coauthored by Ph.D. student Hadear Hassan and Dr. Layton titled “Improving Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Transfer for Bio-Inspired Engineering Design” has been published in the Integrative And Comparative Biology (ICB) journal. The work covers a 4 year study of the bio-inspired engineering design inspiration process, looking at how the technical level of…
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June 5, 2025 Emily Payne, a Ph.D. student in BiSSL, will be a Texas A&M Chevron Energy Graduate Fellow for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. The award, a partnership with Chevron and the Texas A&M Energy Institute, funds 10 outstanding graduate student researchers from across the Texas A&M campus annually with fellowship awards of $10,000…
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April 11, 2025 Dr. Layton presented BiSSL’s work on sustainable design using bio-inspired techniques at Clemson’s mechanical engineering department graduate seminar on April 11. The research seminar was titled “The Best of Both Worlds: An Ecological Design Guide for Engineering Sustainability & Resilience” and had an audience of mechanical engineering and mathematics. Abstract: The resilient…
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March 20, 2025 Drs. Astrid Layton, Jessica Menold, Kosa Goucher-Lambert, Mohsen Moghaddam, and Zhenghui Sha were invited by Drs. Carolyn Seepersad and Julie Linsey at Georgia Tech for an insightful series of talks on The Future of Design for the annual “Rigi” meeting of the Design Society. The talks will be compiled in an editorial journal…
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February 22, 2025 BiSSL Ph.D. student Emily Payne awarded the Susan M. Arseven ’75 Make-a-Difference Memorial Award! The award was given by the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) at their annual conference at Texas A&M University. The award encourages and provides financial assistance to A&M graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in science and engineering…
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February 2, 2025 Seville, Spain & Virtual By an invitation from the INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group (NSWG), Dr. Layton presented on BiSSL work at the 2025 International Workshop. The talk titled “Biological Ecosystems as Quantitative System Design Inspiration for Resilient and Sustainable Human Networks” covered highlights from the BiSSL approach to using inspiration from…
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Zoom – January 15, 2025 What can engineers and designers learn about sustainability from nature? Natural ecosystems are an untapped source of design inspiration for improving the sustainability of human networks. This month’s Engineering 4 Change (E4C) Seminar Series features Dr. Astrid Layton Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and Donna Walker Faculty Fellow…
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Singapore – January 6-10, 2025 The National Research Foundation of Singapore has been conducting the interdisciplinary Global Young Scientist Summit in Singapore (Global Young Scientists Summit (nrf.gov.sg)) since 2013. The goal of the summit is an open exchange between young scientists (in 2025 about 350 young scientists from across the globe) and some of the…
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Atlanta, GA – January 5, 2025 We started the year off with our lab’s work being presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB, https://sicb.org/) 2025 conference, thanks to an invitation from Drs. Cassandra Donatelli and Karly Cohen to participate in their special session “From evolution to innovation: bridging biology and engineering through…
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BiSSL: Bio-inspired Systems Lab 