Dr. Nicholas Garafolo

Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Mechanical Engineering
Office: ASEC 422C
Phone: 330-972-3648
Email: ngarafo@uakron.edu

Biography

As an entrepreneur, a researcher, an educator, and a commercially rated airplane pilot, Dr. Nicholas Garafolo has a multitude of applied research experience. He has led an innovative, fast paced, aerospace startup organization through inception to first flight. His expertise spans the broad area of aerospace and thermofluids: UAS airships, electro-kinetic flows, droplet coalescence, micro-pumps, advanced aerospace seals, turbomachinery modal analysis, fluid visualization, air vehicle design, and space flight hardware.

Research

Thermo-fluid sciences, fluid-material interaction, advanced aerospace seals, near-hermetic fluid flows

Education

• Ph.D. The University of Akron 2010
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron 2006
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Applied Math, The University of Akron 2005, and his