Much water has flown under the bridge since 2010 when I graduated from RMIT. Diploma in my hands, a farewell party left in the past, I was looking into the future, starting a new life, full of challenges. An engineering profession is not an easy one, but I was never searching for easy ways and never regretted the occupation I had chosen. Now looking back to my life I would change nothing. I always had everything a successful engineer needs. Inquisitive by nature, from early childhood I tried to make things work more efficiently, continually examining them and inventing new unexpected ways of their usage. I always could think logically and was mathematically inclined, paid much attention to the slightest details, as a single mistake may spoil the whole engineering project and put in vain hours of a team’s hard work. It is very important to find your place in this world and I was lucky to do so. I must admit that I had three stars that lightened my career path and inspired me. The first star was the star of Leonardo Da Vinci, a great Renaissance inventor that could consider himself an engineer, whose contribution to world science and bright personality impressed me much. He became my icon and inspiration, an ideal engineer so to say. Leonardo’s ideas were far ahead of his time, he was a great innovative thinker. It is a striking fact that his writings and sketches encourage experimentation even of the present-day engineers. Leonardo designed flying machines and instruments of war, worked at practical theories and concepts in engineering and mathematics. I think that I decided to devote my life to engineering watching bright pictures of Leonardo’s sketches in one of the encyclopedias for kids. Leonardo was the first to design a glider in the history of humanity and that glider, designed in the fifteenth century, has much in common with a glider of the twenty-first century. Remarkably, the scientists used one of his designs of a glider in their experiment a few years ago. They followed Leonardo’s instructions exactly and the materials used were similar to those of Vinci’s times. The experiment was even more successful than the well-known Wright brothers’ flight, the glide flew longer than their pilot did. The first concept of the helicopter with an aerodynamic screw belongs to Da Vinci and Leonardo was the first to mention the idea of the parachute. And what impressed me most was an incident from Leonardo’s youth which he considered to be a destiny sign. He was a baby when a hawk flew down and sat on his cradle. He could form a phobia of birds but instead of it, he saw a positive message in the incident, pointing to his destiny to achieve a flight. I recollected that myth at different periods of my life and always tried to form the right attitude to the events and destiny signs. By the way, much of Vinci’s study on aerodynamics is based on his study of bird flight. It is hard to believe but he managed to describe the sources of lift as well as pressure drag in the technical language of the early sixteenth century. Another great engineer who became my inspiration was Gustave Eiffel, whose name bears a famous tower of Paris, the unprecedented 300 meters height and 7000 tons weight structure, the symbol of Paris. The birth of this masterpiece was not an easy one. The petition