Brian D. Jensen is the Harvey Fletcher Professor of Engineering at Brigham Young University. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. in me-chanical engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as the B.S. and M.S. de-grees in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University. He also worked as a micromechanism designer at Sandia National Laboratories. He has performed re-search and published over 100 papers in design topics including microelectrome-chanical systems and compliant mechanisms, and he holds 20 U.S. patents. His work has been recognized by several best paper awards, the BYU Young Scholar Award, and the Utah Engineers Council Educator of the Year Award.