Perry Wood, P.E.

• Ph.D. in Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability (in progress)
  • Northern Arizona University
• MEng in Mechanical Engineering
  • Northern Arizona University
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
  • Northern Arizona University

Perry Wood is an Instructor\Lab Manager of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University (NAU), where he has been here since 2004. He is currently teaching multiple sections of ME180 Introduction to Engineering Graphics. Perry has lectured at Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an China and Ningbo University, Ningbo China on various topic including engineering graphics and Solid Modeling. In 2014 Perry mentored Hooper Grant funded mechanical engineering students in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing and traveled with them to present their research at Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an China. Perry is also pursuing a doctoral degree in Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability with an emphasis in fatigue characterization of magnetic shape memory alloys at Northern Arizona University.

Prior to his current work, Perry worked in the Aerospace and Renewable Energy industries for 16 years on various projects including Boeing\Air force GPS IIF satellite, NASA Space Shuttle, Sandia Laboratory Sunshade, Orbital ATK Taurus\Pegasus rockets, Raytheon patriot missile program, Naval Precision Optical Interferometer and NREL\SouthWest WindPower Skystream Wind Turbine.

Perry is the NAU American Society of Mechanical Engineers faculty adviser which is the most active student section in Arizona. At the 2014 ASME HPVC WEST competition NAU ASME students placed 1st in the women’s sprint competition, 2nd in design, 2nd in innovation, 3rd in endurance, and 2nd overall, out of 29 universities, from around the world.