Matthew's Eclectic Engineering

I got my bachelor’s degree at Purdue University and am currently working on my master’s thesis in aerospace composite materials at the Purdue Composites Manufacturing and Simulation Center (CMSC) under Dr. Dianyun Zhang. I also completed a minor in materials engineering during my undergrad.

I’m an amateur barebow archer and safety officer with the Purdue Archery Club, and I enjoy making bow strings. I made strings for most of the club bows and built our current target stands.

I’m eclectic with a broad knowledge base and an ability to fit disparate pieces together, and I’ll design just about anything. My favorite projects are generally aerospace or naval architecture related. I like to take a manufacturing-first approach to design and like to find the 80% of the capability for 20% of the cost solution to engineering problems. I’m also quite fond of looking to things people have tried in the past and seeing how modern technology might make them viable when they didn’t work before or how they might be solving the same problem I’m having now in a slightly different shape.

I’m also on BlueSky @mglimcher.bsky.social where I sometimes participate in OSINT discussions when I have something to add.