The document is about biomimetics and how engineers are studying nature to solve engineering problems. It discusses how a scientist studied the thorny devil lizard to understand how it is able to collect water in the desert, which led him to develop a device to help people collect water. It also talks about how another scientist examined the microscopic structures on a gecko's feet that allow it to climb vertical walls and hopes to eventually close the gap between natural designs and human engineering. The document emphasizes that combining biological insights with engineering can help advance the field of biomimetics.

1. IECP
Fall 2013
Nikki Mattson

9. 
Pg. 60 – “Before You Read” and Part A

10. Questions
1)Why does the speaker mention the spider and
beetle examples?
2)How is nature “like a catalog of products”?
3)Why does the speaker mention the
greenhouse building project?
Biomimetic Video
What is Biomimetics?

11. 
pg. 61, line 15 – The thorny devil can also do this when
standing on damp sand – a _______competitive advantage in
the desert.
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

12. 
Pg. 61, line 17 – Parker had come to solve the_______of precisely
how it does this…
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

13.   Colleagues
 Vital
 Nonetheless
 Insight
 Riddle
 gradually
 Device
 Gap
 Vertical
 Reproduce
Pg. 61, line 19 - …to make a_______to help people collect water in
the desert.

14. 
Pg. 61, line 38 – Parker sent his observations and experimental
results to…two __________.
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

15. 
Pg. 61, line 45 – This combination of biological ______ and
engineering pragmatism is vital to success in biomimetics.
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

16. 
Pg. 62, line 95 - …Fearing is confident that over time he will close
the ________ between nature and human engineering.
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

17. 
pg. 62, line 105 – Cutkosky studied the extremely small structures
on the gecko’s feet that allow it to run up and down ______walls…
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

18. 
Pg. 63, line 135 – For the present, engineers cannot hope to _______
it.
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

19. 
Pg. 63, line 136 – _________, the gap with nature is gradually closing.
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

20. 
Pg. 63, line 136 - …the gap with nature is _______ closing.
Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce