ENG93000 - Engineering Management for a Sustainable Future

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Engineering Management
Reflective Writing: Engineering management
for a sustainable future
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Reflective Journal 1
Reflective Journal
This reflective paper is based on reflective practice and learning acquired from past reading,
research and factual analysis on ‘biomimicry subject’. I am reflecting on knowledge based on
biomimicry and its major elements through critically thinking, analysing and judging in
relation to the case studies as well as important theories about the topic. My own ideas and
practices which relate me with the topics chosen and research conducted over them during
workshops one and two in ENG93000 will be the major part of this reflective writing.
Moreover, I will draw links of my experiences and learning with the important theories
literature, case studies as well as examples that are explaining my chosen topics for the
workshop [ CITATION Aus181 \l 16393 ].
For my research during ENG9300 workshop one and two, I chose biomimicry as my major
area of study because of the significance of the research subject for the engineering
management. As we know that all eengineers are motivated by nature for creating solutions
for perplexing issues which are faced by the society [ CITATION Bas12 \l 16393 ]. In this
context, biomimicry is an innovative way which seeks sustainable solutions through imitating
our nature's time-tested strategies as well as patterns [ CITATION Sac12 \l 16393 ]. For an
example, energy generated by a solar cell for engineering management is inspired by a leaf in
nature. In this way, biomimicry research is majorly beneficial for the entire industrial
management along with advanced and innovative ideas [ CITATION Bas12 \l 16393 ]. The
other aspect of choosing biomimicry subject during my workshop is that the subject is all
about learning from as well as imitating natural arrangements, processes, as well as
ecosystems in order to build more circular designs in engineering [ CITATION Das13 \l
16393 ]. In this way, the key idea of the subject is that our nature has already resolved most
of the issues, problems like energy, food production, climate control, transportation, benign
chemistry collaboration we are contending with and hence we must mimicry the nature’s way
of resolving problems in an efficient way [ CITATION Ble08 \l 16393 ].
Our recent issues in the area of sustainability, engineering and manufacturing of the resources
include human resources and population, global food security, the urbanisation, safe energy
for all, industry, conflicts and energy degradation and many more [ CITATION Sau16 \l
16393 ]. During my research in workshop ENG9300, I learnt that these above mentioned
sustainability issues are easily solvable through biomimicry approach. Biomimicry, an

Reflective Journal 2
approach to innovation seeks sustainable resolutions to all human challenges through
adapting nature’s patterns as well as strategies.
If I will summarise my research over biomimicry, then according to me it is a method of
generating solutions to all human challenges through imitating ideas and designs found as
well as implied by the nature. It can be used everywhere like vehicles, buildings and even
engineering materials [ CITATION Aus181 \l 16393 ]. I also analysed that integrating
biomimicry into engineering design practice can definitely produce various benefits for the
global community at a large extent [ CITATION LuY15 \l 16393 ]. I learnt that community
buildings, parks and streets can easily be constructed in order to do the same functions which
are done by a natural ecosystem. For instance, storm water harvest, habitat creation, flood
mitigation, energy production and carbon sequestration all are the functions performed by
ecosystem and those are easily performable by us through adopting nature’s style
[ CITATION Bar06 \l 16393 ].
In my opinion, solutions to all human problems lie in three levels of biomimicry as
biomimicry work on 3 significant levels efficiently, which are as follows:
 The organism
 Organism’s behaviours
 The ecosystem [ CITATION Cam18 \l 16393 ].
Moreover, biomimicry is also a method for dealing with advancements which are looking for
economical solutions for the human difficulties through emulating nature's dependable
systems as well as examples. In this context, my investigation about the idea of biomimicry
recognized that two ideas of biomimicry through fundamentally brooding 4 elements of the
ideas of biomimicry: mimesis, innovation, nature, and morals [ CITATION Cam18 \l
16393 ]. Thus, I researched and analysed the two ideas of biomimicry which are mimesis and
nature [ CITATION Gri13 \l 16393 ].
The first area of my research on biomimicry is mimesis which is surely not a new
advancement as it is a traditional method of solving problems through emulating any efficient
system which has already succeeded in that area [ CITATION UNE18 \l 16393 ]. I have
realised that an ecosystem refers a set of ecological beings living together and all the
biological as well as non-biological organisms residing at a single place with peace makes the
nature beautiful. Besides, the organisms may include animals, a pond, trees, aquatic animals,