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	* Richard Murray (CDS/BE), murray@cds.caltech.edu		* Richard Murray (CDS/BE), murray@cds.caltech.edu
	* Floris van Breugel (BE), floris@caltech.edu		* Floris van Breugel (BE), floris@caltech.edu
	* Lectures: MW, 11a-12p, ~~location TBD~~		* Lectures: MW, 11a-12p, 151 Braun
	* Office hours: by appointment		* Office hours: by appointment
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	* Arjun Sadanand (EE)		* Arjun Sadanand (EE)
	* Lab session: Tue, 1-4, 12 Steele Lab		* Lab session: Tue, 1-4, 12 Steele Lab
	* Open lab hours: ~~TBD~~		* Open lab hours: Wed, 7-10 pm and Thu, 1-4 pm
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'''Instructors'''
* Michael Dickinson (BBE), flyman@caltech.edu
* Richard Murray (CDS/BE), murray@cds.caltech.edu
* Floris van Breugel (BE), floris@caltech.edu
* Lectures: MW, 11a-12p, location TBD
* Office hours: by appointment
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'''Teaching Assistants'''
* Gautham Sholingar (EE)
* Arjun Sadanand (EE)
* Lab session: Tue, 1-4, 12 Steele Lab
* Open lab hours: TBD
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=== Course Description ===
Students will formulate and implement an engineering project desired to explore a biological principle or property that is exhibited in nature. Students will work in small teams in which they build a hardware platform that is motivated by a biological example in which a given approach or architecture is used to implement a given behavior. Alternatively, the team will construct new experimental instruments in order to test for the presence of an engineering principle in a biological system. Example topics include bio-inspired control of motion (from bacteria to insects), processing of sensory information (molecules to neurons), and robustness/fault-tolerance. Each project will involve proposing a specific mechanism to be explored, designing an engineering system that can be used to demonstrate and evaluate the mechanism, and building a computer-controlled, electro-mechanical system in the lab that implements or characterizes the proposed mechanism, behavior or architecture.

<center>'''[http://nessa.cds.caltech.edu:8090/display/BE107 Course homepage]'''</center>

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BE 107, Spring 2016 - Revision history

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