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19BIO101 BIOLOGY FOR

ENGINEERS - A

LECTURE-2 and 3:     WHY ENGINEERS SHOULD STUDY BIOLOGY


WHY LEARN BIOLOGY???

IMMEDIATE FUTURE BUSINESS ETHICAL REASONS


REQUIREMENTS
Medical diagnosis

Immediate Space Applications


requirements Military Application

Enhancing Life quality 


Medical Diagnosis and therapy
• To develop technologies to diagnose medical
conditions

• Next level "drug-delivery" using nano-


technology
QUIZ 1

Name some technologies used for medical diagnosis?


Space Applications

SENDING HUMANS TO CONDUCTING BIOLOGICAL


SPACE EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE
Military Applications
Developing sensors to detect Bio-war scenario
Enhancing Life quality of physically challenged/
aged

Pace-maker

Artificial limb

Haptics
Parthenium Weed

Cntd..

• Techniques for handling mental disability


• Advanced data processing tools can be used

• General medical research


• Data Processing
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Life science research


Parthenium Beetle
• Agriculture
• entomology
Future Business

The most attractive area now is : AI and 5G!!!!


• Sensing Technologies
• Automation
• Genetics

Various companies involved in active life science research: HP, Siemens, Philips etc
Ethical reasons
            ACTION                                           REACTION

ANTIBODY GENETICALLY WATER SUSTAINABLE


RESISTANCE MODIFIED FOOD MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
Discussion
Nature inspired inventions !!!!!!

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