Larry L. Howell is a Professor and an Associate Academic Vice President at Brigham Young University (BYU). He received his B.S. from BYU and M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. Prior to joining BYU he was a finite element analysis consultant for Engineering Methods and an engineer on the design of the YF-22 (the prototype for the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor). He is a Fellow of ASME, past chair of the ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Committee, and he has been associate editor for the Journal of Mechanisms & Robotics and the Journal of Mechanical Design. He is the recipient of the ASME Machine Design Award, ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Award, Theodore von Kármán Fellowship, NSF Career Award, Purdue Outstanding Mechanical Engineer (alumni award), and the BYU Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Lecturer Award (BYU’s highest faculty award). Prof. Howell’s research focuses on compliant mechanisms, including origami-inspired mechanisms, space mechanisms, and medical devices. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms and the author of Compliant Mechanisms, which are published in English and Chinese. His lab’s work has also been reported in popular venues such as CNN International, Newsweek, Scientific American, The Economist, Smithsonian Magazine, and the PBS documentary program NOVA.