Josh Fody – NESC Academy Biography

Josh was born and raised in Colorado.  After serving as an enlisted sailor in the US Navy for 4 years working on the flight deck and in the jet shop performing intermediate level maintenance on aircraft power-plants, Josh returned home and attended CU-Boulder for his undergraduate degree.  He later moved to Washington, DC where he later pursued a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland.  Josh’s research primarily focused on enhanced evaporator concepts for alternate energy generation.  After defending his thesis, he began working at NASA Langley Research Center where he has been working in the Structural and Thermal Systems Branch for the past 2 years as a thermal analyst.