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Dr. Layton was selected as 1 of the 5 recipients of 2024’s Open Educational Resources Awards based on her outstanding achievements and dedication in support of free textbooks and resources in her courses, with over 70 faculty nominated this year. The 2024 Open Educational Resources Awards Ceremony was held in the Texas A&M Hotel and…
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BiSSL Ph.D. student Alexander Duffy will be presenting his research at the annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER) on March 25-27, 2024 in Tucson, AZ. His paper, titled “Satellite Network Architecture Performance: Setting the Stage for Bio-Inspired Network Design,” covers: Abstract: Satellite networks, here defined as groups of artificial satellites where the satellites are…
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The 5-year long award is for the grant titled “CAREER: Resilient Engineering Systems Design Via Early-Stage Bio-Inspiration.” NSF CAREER Awards, part of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program, are the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to…
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Two journal papers related to the use of bio-inspired system design approaches for cyber-physical systems from the BiSSL group have recently been accepted for publication! The 1st stems directly from a current ongoing grant with Sandia National Labs with BiSSL Ph.D. student Emily Payne as co-author and the 2nd is a culmination of multiple collaborations…
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BiSSL group director Dr. Astrid Layton was selected to attend the 2023 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering (EU-US FOE) Symposium hosted by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Nokia Bell Labs. The National Academy of Engineering holds an annual US Frontiers of Engineering symposium that brings together 60 highly accomplished early-career engineers from EU and…
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Dr. Layton gave an invited seminar presentation at University of Michigan titled “How Nature’s Systems Can Guide More Resilient and Sustainable Human Network Design” Sept. 26, 2023. The talk coincided with some excellent collaborative brainstorming with Dr. Sita Syal and other new contacts. Abstract: Inspiration from nature has produced some fascinating, novel, and life-changing solutions…
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Two BiSSL Ph.D. students – Hadear Hassan and Emily Payne – have been awarded 2023 J. Mike Walker ’66 Impact Awards. The award is given to two male and two female graduate students who have demonstrated academic/scholarly achievements, as well as have leadership and/or entrepreneurial focus/experience and innovative excellence. The winners each receive a $5,000…
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Another excellent ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) IDETC-CIE conference is in the books! BiSSL Ph.D. students Hadear Hassan and Emily Payne from the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University each presented their first-authored papers, sharing their research that will help us achieve a more sustainable and resilient world. Hadear’s (in collaboration with Emily) was on “Quantifying the Sustainability and Robustness…
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Following the ASEE 2023 workshop on our makerspace modeling/analysis GUI use, Dr. Layton was invited to come give a research seminar at University of Pittsburgh to share the NSF funded makerspace work her and Dr. Julie Linsey at Georgia Tech have been doing. Her talk was titled: “From Makerspaces to Industries: How Bio-Inspired Network Models…
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BiSSL: Bio-inspired Systems Lab 