FutureFab Roles

• Project Manger

• Systems Engineering, Test, and Integration Group Leader

• Documentation Group Leader

Experience

Post-doctoral Research Assistant

2008, Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

• Conducting research in additive manufacturing of complete, fully integrated electromechanical devices.

Engineering Consultant

2008, Ithaca, NY, USA

• 6/1/2008-9/1/2008, $15k R&D contract with Rich Food Products of Buffalo, NY to develop robotic technology for food manufacturing.

Owner and Manager, 1525 South Street, LLC

2008-,  Philadelphia, PA, USA

• Real estate property holding and management company, est. 1/2008.

• 1 building, $370,000 assets, $2000/month revenue, $750/month liabilities.

Co-owner & Director, Drive Passion PC Services, CC

2007-,  Mamelodi, South Africa

• Internet café, telecommunications and document services company in impoverished suburb of Pretoria, South Africa; doors opened 3/2008.

• $40,000 assets, $1000/month revenue, $1400/month liabilities.

Co-creator, Fab@Home Project

2004-, Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

• Sole Designer and Engineer for Hardware, Firmware, Electronics of Fab@Home Model 1

• Co-designer and engineer for software

• Co-designer and contributor for documentation

Applied Physics Technician

1999-2001, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL, USA

• Vacuum systems group, Proton Driver Conceptual Design Team.

• Designed, analyzed, prototyped and tested new vacuum system technologies for high performance proton synchrotron accelerator.

Engineering Consultant

1998-1999, Drexel University Philadelphia, PA, USA

• Developed laboratory automation equipment for neuroscience research.

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering; Minors, Materials Science & Engineering, Systems Engineering.

2008 Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

• Teaching assistantships: mechatronics, thermodynamics / fluid mechanics.

• Coursework: Machine learning, evolutionary computation, polymer chemistry, systems engineering, mathematical analysis.

• Setup and managed mechanical engineering research laboratory.

• Supervised 7 undergraduate / master's student research projects.

• Research in additive manufacturing of complete electromechanical devices.

• Co-creator of Fab@Home open-source additive manufacturing system project (http://www.fabathome.org): sole developer of hardware, firmware, electronics, and supply chain; co-developer of software, website, and documentation.

Masters of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering; Certificate in Systems Engineering.

2002 Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

• Teaching assistantships: student robotics project supervision.

• Coursework: system dynamics, feedback control, systems engineering, project management.

• Systems engineer for student robotics project team.

B.A., Experimental Physics.

1999 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA

Awards

2008

• Best Paper of Year Award, Rapid Prototyping Journal, Emerald Publishing Group, U.K. for "Fab@Home: The Personal Desktop Fabricator Kit".

2007

• Popular Mechanics Magazine Innovation Award for the Fab@Home Project.

2002

• Voted Most Valuable Project Member, RoboCup Autonomous Robotic Soccer Team, Cornell University - 2002 RoboCup World Champions.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• Malone, E., Berry, M., Lipson, H., (2008), "Freeform Fabrication and Characterization of Zinc-air Batteries", Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 128-140.

• Malone E., Lipson H., (2007) "Fab@Home: The Personal Desktop Fabricator Kit", Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp.245-255.

• Malone E., Lipson H., (2006) "Freeform Fabrication of Ionomeric Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators", Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp.244-253.

• Cohen D. L., Malone E., Lipson H., Bonassar L., (2006) "3D direct printing of heterogeneous tissue implants", Tissue Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 5: 1325-1335

• Malone E., Rasa K., Cohen D. L., Isaacson T., Lashley H., Lipson H., (2004) "Freeform fabrication of 3D zinc-air batteries and functional electro-mechanical assemblies", Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 58-69.

Book Chapters

• Vilbrandt, T., Malone, E., Lipson H., Pasko, A., (2008) "Universal Desktop Fabrication", in Heterogeneous Objects Modeling and Applications, pp. 259-284. Requires access to SpringerLink

Patents

• Lipson, H., Bonassar, L., Cohen, D., Malone, E., (2005) MODULAR FABRICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS, pending.