Prof. Martin Culpepper received his BSME (1995) from Iowa State University, and his MS/PhD (1997/ 2000) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as an independent consultant from 2000 - 2001 before joining the faculty at MIT. Prof. Culpepper is the recipient of an NSF Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), two R&D 100 awards (1999, 2003), a TR100 award, and a Joel and Ruth Spira Teaching Award. He has served as Maker Czar for MIT’s Mechanical Engineering Department, and currently handles the same responsibilities at the Institute level. In each role, he has been tasked with upgrading and enhancing MIT’s maker capabilities, which includes improving access for students, conversion of old spaces/equipment, introduction of new technologies, creation of new campus spaces and outreach to other schools in the form of collaboration, resource provision and consulting.