New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- Engineers are supposed to design new machines and systems. For that they go deeper into the subject and come up with better designs. However, I feel they are limited by the knowledge of what exists in their design world. If they understand life and the biological structures their horizon will expand manifold times and they can produce better inventions. This is called the science of biomimicry or learning from nature.

Already lots of engineering designs around the world are using biomimicry for creating new materials, processes and inventions. However, these things are done by engineers and scientists after years of experience. If they are exposed to the fundamentals of biological designs early on in their studies a...