Matthew Dipalma
Blade Design Engineer at Lockheed Martin
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.
9 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)
cad8
x86-646
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xmdi/xmdi.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
xmdi/SCHIZONE
Jun 2023 - Jun 2025
some x86-64 assembly for you
Contributions:555 pushes, 5 comments, 39 issues in 2 years
x86-64
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