Number of times previously entering contest: 2

Favorite design and analysis tools: Pencil, Pen and Graph-paper; Alibre, Solidworks, Blender, Magics, and some others

For managing CAD data Dan's company uses: None

Hobbies and activities: Taekwondo, programming

Online communities: MySpace, Facebook, some programming ones

Inspired by: Everyday things, really, and the fundamentals. The power of the lever, for example, or the wedge. Principles like Occam's Razor and always looking for a simpler solutions.