Profession: Engineer/Designer

Number of times previously entering contest: never

Favorite design and analysis tools: Solidworks, Sketchbook Pro, Force Effect, Excel

Hobbies and activities: propulsion, beach volleyball, mechanism design

Online communities: pulse-jets.com forum, cnczone forum

Inspired by: I am most inspired by technical problems that are widely regarded as having no simple solution. I believe a basic truth, that anything difficult and worth doing can be assumed from the outset to be simple once you know how. So I enter any project with the sure knowledge that basic elements and few of them will win the day eventually. The path to simplicity can be a long one, and the journey is almost always more satisfying than the destination.