Profession: Engineer/Designer

Number of times previously entering contest: never

Favorite design and analysis tools: SolidWorks, FAE

Hobbies and activities: Invention, Music - Singing/Writing, Church, MENSA

Online communities: Linkedin, Facebook, Meet-up, Innovention, MENSA, V

Inspired by: New material and process innovations by others that enable genesis of previously impractical creations, God directed inspiration whether directly or as a result of a talent for creativity.
Shapes and functional solutions from nature as cues to solving related problems in engineering. Imaginings of my own and from and others from various sources like science fiction.