Rocco A. Fazzolari

Research Expertise

• Renewable energy systems – design and assessment
• Energy management in industrial and commercial facilities
• Heating, ventilating and air conditioning system design
• Space and planetary resource utilization
• Waste stream utilization

Education

• PhD: Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1967
• MS: Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1963
• BS: Chemical Engineering, City College of New York, 1954

Courses Taught Since 2000

• AME 445-545: Renewable Energy Systems (online class)

Employment

• 1998: The University of Arizona: Associate Professor Emeritus
• 1995-97: Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Associate Professor
• 1969-95: Nuclear and Energy Engineering, The University of Arizona: Associate Professor
• 1988-91: Solar and Energy Research Facility, The University of Arizona: Director
• 1981-85: Solar and Energy Research Facility, The University of Arizona: Director
• 1976-78: Energy Development Planning in Niger, Africa, Office of Arid Land Studies, The University of Arizona (summers)
• 1974: Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor Group, General Atomic Company, San Diego, California (summer)
• 1973: Direction des Etudes et Recherche, Electricite de France, Chatou, France (summer)
• 1972: Faculty Participation Program, EBR-II, Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho Falls (summer)
• 1971: Direction des Etudes et Recherche, Electricite de France, Chatou, France (summer)
• 1970: Education and Training for Introduction of Nuclear Power in Mexico, Organization of American States, Mexico (summer)
• 1969: Nuclear Engineering, University of Missouri, Rolla: Visiting Assistant Professor
• 1969: Nuclear Power Training Course, Comicion Federal de Electricidad (CFE)-IPN, Mexico (summer): Coordinator
• 1967-69: Nuclear Engineering, Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico City: Professor
• 1962: Sodium Reactor Experiment, Atomics International, Canoga Park, California (summer): Research Engineer
• 1960-67: Engineering University of California, Los Angeles: Teaching/Research Assistant
• 1954-59: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: First Lieutenant, Post Engineer, Engineering Construction Officer

Honors and Awards

• Faculty Fellow at the NASACAL SPACE, "Technological Springboard to the 21st Century, A Study of Space Based Resources and Operations," University of California, San Diego, June 17-Aug. 24, 1984
• Federal Energy Administration, Region IX, Regional Energy Conservation Award, 1976

Professional Societies

• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Registered Professional Engineering

• Mechanical, State of Arizona, awarded January 1991

Consulting

• Review for McGraw-Hill Publishers: Spreadsheet Tools for Engineers Using Excel by Byron S. Gottfried