Bioengineering: Discover How Nature Inspires Human Designs with 25 Projects

by Christine Burillo-Kirch

Book Overview

In Bioengineering: Discover How Nature Inspires Human Designs, young readers explore designs and innovations that come from nature. Leonardo da Vinci studied birds' wings to draw his design of a man-made flying machine and engineers still look to birds when attempting to make planes more aerodynamic. And a burr on your shirt from walking through a field sticks like Velcro, doesn't it? The plant and animal world provides engineers and scientists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619303663
• ISBN13: 9781619303669
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Nomad Press (VT)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7