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INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group (NSWG) rolls out their “Natural Systems and Systems Engineering Process: A Primer” Nature provides a wealth of solutions that can inspire engineers to create better designs. The Primer on Natural Systems is developed as a tool for Systems Engineering professionals and Project Managers to introduce and integrate Natural Systems thinking and…
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Dr. Layton will be giving a lightning talk at the NSF-funded Workshop Convergent Sea Level Rise Adaptation for Urban and Rural Systems in the Gulf of Mexico. Her talk “Nature’s Lessons for Resilient Systems” joins others seeking to collaborate to address the urban and rural system impacts of sea level rise.
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Dr. Astrid Layton was invited by the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation (CAMDI) in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin to share BiSSL group work on bio-inspired system resilience. Information about her talk, titled “Learning from Nature to Design Resilient Systems,” can be found in the flying below.
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NSF’s Convergence Accelerator is developing use-inspired solutions to address challenges aligned to the manufacturing, reuse and recycling of critical materials and products. The BiSSL group joins one of sixteen teams that have been selected for the program’s Track I: Sustainable Materials for Global Challenges. The project is titled: Toward Water Circularity: Mining Green Hydrogen and Value-Added Materials…
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Dr. Abheek Chatterjee becomes the first Ph.D. student to graduate from the BiSSL group. He is set to join the University of Maryland as a postdoc at NIST in January. The whole lab group is very excited for him but will also miss him very much!
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Dr. Astrid Layton was invited by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Miami to share BiSSL group work on bio-inspired system resilience. Her talk, titled “Using Biological Inspiration to Guide the Design of Human Networks for Resilience” is also now featured in the University’s Climate Resilience Academy UM YouTube series. Abstract: Biological ecosystems…
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Masters of Energy student Alexander Duffy successfully defended his master’s thesis on Friday. The committee consisted of BiSSL head Dr. Astrid Layton, Dr. Katherine Davis from Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Dr. Helen Reed from Aerospace Engineering. His thesis was titled “Design and analysis of satellite networks for ecological resilience.”
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The first Ph.D. student to graduate from BiSSL, Abheek Chatterjee, successfully defended his dissertation on Wednesday! The committee consisted of BiSSL head Dr. Astrid Layton, Drs. Richard Malak and Douglas Allaire from Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. Nancy Currie-Gregg from Industrial & Systems Engineering. His thesis was titled “An Investigation of Ecologically-Inspired Architecting Principles for Resilient System of Systems Design.”
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Jessica was an undergraduate researcher student in BiSSL while at Texas A&M. Her work combining her interest in brain injuries with bio-inspired design turned into a full-length journal article that has now been accepted for publication in the Journal of Mechanical Design. Jessica is currently a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University in their MIIPS…
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Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Abheek Chatterjee for being selected by the College of Engineering as a Teaching Fellow for the Fall 2022 term!
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