Abstract: Natural and biological examples have become increasingly important in the technical science and practice. Introductory biology has more impacts on the lives of modern people than any other kind of science. Thermal engineering research has also discovered and uses a lot of phenomena existing in nature. Each such example announces that biology is an exciting field of intellectual experience. It is clearly and interestingly seen and illustrated how much could be learned from nature. The paper has chosen its subjects thoughtfully, and selected only durable, memorable, and often novel examples that readily show how the newly acquired knowledge can be applied. The nature is one of the sources of the progress in thermal technics.
 

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Prof.Dr.techn. Imre BENKŐ was born on August 14, 1936 in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his MSc in 1961 on thermal engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics(BME), Engineer-Professor in 1968 and Dr.techn. in 1972 in Mechanical Engineering from BME. Since 1961, he has been working in BME, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, currently at the Department of Energy (DoE) as a lecturer and head of the research work on infrared thermogrammetry (IR-TGM).

He has done pioneering works on IR-TGM in Hungary , in the field of engineering problems since 1972 and also in thermo-biological diagnostics since 1980. and mainly he was responsible between 1980 and 1990 for the national research project on ‘Development of Thermal Measurements and Automation’.
Since 1980 he has been the president of the Branch of Thermal Engineering and Thermogrammetry (TE and TGM) at the Scientific Society of Measurements, Automation and Informatics (MATE) and since 1977 he is the scientific organizer of the international THERMO conference on TE and TGM. He is a member of the European Association of Thermology (EAT) Committee and of the Editorial Board of the Journal ‘Measurement and Automation’ and ‘Thermology International.
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He is an expert of conductive and radiative heat transfer problems, of heat transfer in composite devices, of the application of numerical (Thermo-CAD) and experimental methods (IR-techniques) in solving Heat and Mass Transfer problems, of the development of new measurement methods and devices.

He has been the professor of six university courses (‘Thermodynamics’, ‘Heat Transfer’, ‘Heat Exchangers’, ‘Infrared Thermogrammetry’, ‘Industrial furnaces’ and ‘Energy Management’) and author or co-author of over 120 books, articles, research papers, reports and owner of eight patents. He is a distinguished inventor(1986) and holder of MTESZ (1990) and MATE (1983) prizes. . He was invited professor and researcher in France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia and has travelled on lecture trips all over the world.