{"175411":{"#nid":"175411","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Biomimicry: Engineering\u0027s Sincerest Form of Flattery","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Bert Bras, professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, explains\u0026nbsp;why he prefers to call biomimicry \u0022biologically inspired design,\u0022 in the November 2012 ASME eNews. \u0022Biomimicry implies copying and simply copying is not necessarily the best or smartest way to do things,\u0022 he says. \u0022Inspiration allows the engineer to take the best from nature and put it in a new (engineering) context.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E-- ASME article written by independent writer Mark Crawford\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27732","created_gmt":"2012-12-04 15:59:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:09","author":"Pamela Rountree","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"TPAC","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.asme.org\/kb\/news---articles\/articles\/bioengineering\/biomimicry--engineering%E2%80%99s-sincerest-form-of-flatte","dateline":{"date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"155831","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2728","name":"asme"},{"id":"7688","name":"biomimicry"},{"id":"14545","name":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"49371","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}