Profession: Student

Number of times previously entering contest: never

Favorite design and analysis tools: Pro E, Solidworks, COSMOS FEA,Zemax Unix, Ansys Pbasic, Matlab, C, Assembly, Pro/DESKTOP, OrCAD, CNC languages,

For managing CAD data Martin's company uses: None

Hobbies and activities: electomechanical gadget building, skiing, bicycles

Online communities: parallax.com, bentrideronline.com

Inspired by: Real needs for new designs that will improve how things are done. I like to work on designing and actually building working devices that are practical, utilizing existing technologies. It should be something that is "possible" with today's physics but has not been done before or not done as good as possible previously. Enjoy doing system design where you look at functionality, practicality and marketability.