I am a student majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Industrial Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, in Keizer, Oregon, just outside of the capitol, Salem. I lead an archeological excavation of a 40 year old garbage pit in my backyard when I was 10, hiked the Eagle Cap trail in the Wallawa mountain range in eastern Oregon when I was 16, and ran the Los Angeles Marathon with a group of friends from my high school when I was 18. In the summer of 2002 I built an aluminum smelter for casting furniture parts. And, in 2004 I founded IDFuel, the Industiral Design Weblog