Matthew Dipalma
Blade Design Engineer at Center for Mobility with Vertical Lift (MOVE)
City of Troy, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Dipalma is a Blade Design Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing composite helicopter rotor blades at Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin and developing adaptive morphing rotorcraft technologies at RPI's MOVE center. He combines strong CAD and FEA skills with practical prototyping and mechanical testing, backed by a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and top-tier academic performance. Comfortable bridging mechanical intuition with computer science, he routinely applies software-driven analysis to real-world manufacturing constraints. At Sikorsky he focuses on productionized designs, while his research work includes publishable studies and a dissertation available on request. A former instructor and TA, he also mentors students in helicopter design and embedded control, reflecting clear communication and teaching ability. Based in Troy, NY and a U.S. citizen, he brings both lab-to-flight experience and a pragmatic, data-informed approach to rotorcraft design.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.95, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.95 at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteJoel Barlow High School
English, French
Github Skills (2)
raycasting10
cad7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
xmdi/HARCS-C
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
xmdi/CAD-from-Scratch
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
code for video series on writing CAD utilities from scratch
Contributions:35 commits, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
cadraycastingvideovideo-seriesscratch
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