CCTThis user attends or attended Clarkson University.
UIUCThis user is or was a student at the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign.
This user has a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering.
This user lives in or hails from Seattle and the Seattle Metropolitan area.
This user lives
in the U.S. State of Washington.

I was born and raised in Pennsylvania, live in Seattle and am a native speaker of English . My academic background is in Mechanical Engineering (BS from Clarkson University) and Aero/Astro Engineering (MS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). My interests are in the computer aided engineering, specifically in composite materials and fracture mechanics. I work professionally in this area developing related software and occasionally spend off time contributing to the open source finite element analysis application Calculix.