Department of Mechanical Engineering Hosts Speaker on Biomimetic Devices

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 18, 2012) ― When faced with an engineering design problem, sometimes engineers look to nature for guidance.  The process of biomimetic design employs the use of principles inspired by biological systems.  This is the topic of an upcoming seminar offered by the University of Kentucky College of Engineering.

The UK Department of Mechanical Engineering's William Maxwell Reed Seminar Series presents Arvind Santhanakrishnan of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.  His presentation, " Fluid-Structure Interaction in Biological Systems at Low Reynolds Numbers:  Toward Development of Biomimetic Devices," will be given at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in Room 323 of the CRMS Building on the Lexington campus.

Santhanakrishnan is an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint program of the Emory University School of Medicine and the Georgia Tech College of Engineering.  He received his doctorate from UK in 2007.

For more information, visit http://www.engr.uky.edu/me/files/2012/09/Santhanakrishnan-9-27-12.pdf.