Across industries, system resiliency is a foundational design goal. As both the economic and environmental landscape evolve, systems must adapt to emerging conditions. The emerging field of biomimicry presents engineers and ecologists with the opportunity to innovate while simultaneously operating within the constraints of a consumer-driven landscape. The intersection of engineering principles and ecological information empowers us to create systems capable of meeting human needs while synergizing designs with nature. The planet has been designing, testing, and evolving ecosystems for 3.8 billion years. The environment develops adaptive dynamics capable of changing to meet evolving conditions. These ecosystems present us with invaluable information on how to optimize our designs for unique environments, energy efficiency, and higher resilience. By comparing the mechanisms of ecosystems and the challenges faced in engineering resilient systems, we can discover novel solutions for resiliency-based innovation.

Through the development of a technical engineering process harnessing the knowledge of ecology, systems thinking, and model-based systems engineering (MBSE), we demonstrate how ecological insights can be systematically integrated into design and development across industry scales and needs. With the intersection of engineering principles and ecological knowledge, we can enhance the adaptive dynamics, environmental specialization, and energy efficiency of a desired system.

Through the development of predator-prey inspired models, we were able to synthesize the benefits of using nature as a blueprint for specialized system design. By analyzing the physiology and behavior in predator-prey relationships, we demonstrate how biological information can be integrated into the design of resilient and efficient systems. An adaptive methodology, the proposed process applies to diverse biomimetic design innovations. Through the development of a biomimetic design process, we also show the needed collaboration between the fields of engineering and ecology to optimize the resilience and success of biomimetic systems.