Matthew Ford
Teaching Assistant Professor at University of Washington Tacoma
Tacoma, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Ford is a Teaching Assistant Professor and mechanical engineer with 11 years of experience blending experimental stress analysis, computational mechanics, and biomechanics. He earned a PhD from Northwestern studying mechanics of structures and has applied that expertise to deep-dive problems like bicycle wheel mechanics and carbon nanotube composite yarns, pairing hands-on experiments with simulation. After a postdoc at Cornell he now teaches and mentors at University of Washington Tacoma, training the next generation in applied mechanics and data-driven research methods. Outside academia he volunteers and serves on the board of The Recyclery, where he teaches bike maintenance and channels his vision of sustainable transportation into community education. Notably, his work bridges microscale composite behavior and everyday mechanical systems, revealing transferable insights across scales.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.97, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.97 at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University
Github Skills (5)
wheels9
python7
numpy4
logging1
kiosk1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dashdotrobot/dashdotrobot.github.io
Oct 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
dashdotrobot/bicyclewheel
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Website about bicycle wheels
Contributions:33 PRs, 196 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 1 month
wheelsbicycle
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