Matt Ulinski is the Hansen Director of Instructional Laboratories at Cornell University's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He and his staff are responsible for ensuring that the department's graduate and undergraduate students have modern facilities and experiments to work with during their studies at Cornell.

Prior to his current position at Cornell, Matt was the Director of Laboratories at Northeastern University’s Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, a position he held from 1997-2001. At Northeastern he was also an instructor for a core course on engineering measurements and error analysis.

Matt has a Bachelor's and Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, with a specialty in Thermofluids. He also has an Associates Degree in Automotive Technology from Northern Virginia Community College. In his studies at Northeastern, he designed and built the Laminar Flame Laboratory. He has worked on other projects including: a flame analysis study on small burners and heat transfer and fluid studies on telecommunication hardware. Matt is a member of ASME, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Before running instructional labs, Matt was in the auto business for over fifteen years: one year as an associate with the Global Automotive Group at DRI, eight years as the founder and president of Cambridge Carworks, Inc., a progressive auto repair and body shop in Cambridge Massachusetts, and prior to and concurrently as a Certified ASE Master Automotive and Air Conditioning Technician.

While at DRI, Matt contributed to the Market and Technology Assessment of Gasoline Direct Injection and a global study of the differential market for a major supplier of rear axles. He was also responsible for upgrading and maintaining the Automotive Group’s extensive array of component supplier and technology databases, working on the North and South American manufacturing markets.

Cambridge Carworks, Inc. was a progressive auto repair shop founded by Matt in 1988. The shop performed full service auto repairs and included a body shop. The shop was founded on the idea of being a one-stop garage to car ‘families’. Clinics for car owners, up-to-date training for the employees and detailed ‘on the car’ estimates were some of the elements of the business. Cambridge Carworks also focused on performing environmentally sound repairs – the use of freon recyclers long before they were mandated, recycling and using reconditioned antifreeze, and separating and recycling solid waste. The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts recognized Cambridge Carworks with an award as one of the City’s Best Business Solid Waste Recyclers when they instituted their mandated solid waste recycling program. In addition, Matt was a Certified ASE Automotive and Air Conditioning Technician, certification he kept current through extensive training and continuing education.