Nicholas Sawaf

Nicholas Sawaf has been working in the engineering field since 2017. In 2017, they worked as an Engineering Intern at Marine Turbine Technologies, LLC, where they 3D printed sample motorcycle parts using plastic composites and worked with CNC lathes, mills, and water jets to manufacture parts for customer builds. Nicholas also lead a group in measuring the coefficient of friction for a polyurethane material used on the base of future MTT turbine airboats. In 2018, they worked as an Engineering Intern at Integrated Magnetics, where they assisted engineers and machinists in daily tasks and projects including working with CNC lathes, laser cutters, and water jet CNC. Nicholas also shadowed two engineers and participated in designing a metal core/casing and inserted six curved Neodymium magnets into the core that was part of a larger project solution. In 2021, they began working as a Project Engineer Intern at Cryopak, where they organized and transferred Bill of Materials and list of clients into a new database, sketched and noted dimensions of four of Cryopak's packaging molding tools and used those sketches to model them using 3D CAD (SolidWorks), worked with Cryopak's several different temperature chambers, learning to program and operate them along with thermocouples in order to run short and long-term package temperature tests, and was responsible for calibrating the thermocouples using the temperature chambers, a thermocouple validator, and validator software. Currently, they are working as a Research and Development Engineer at Supira Medical, a position they have held since 2023.

Nicholas Sawaf attended The George Washington University - School of Engineering & Applied Science from 2018 to 2022, where they earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering.