Dr. Michael Werle
Founder and Chief Scientist
FloDesign Wind Turbine Inc

Dr. Michael Werle is the Chief Scientist and a Co-Founder of FloDesign Wind Turbine Inc. He is also a member of Connecticut’s Board of Governors for Higher Education, a member of Connecticut Innovations’ Technical Advisory Board, an international technology development and management expert and a past president of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.  In 1995 he retired from 18 years service with United Technologies Corporation (UTC) as the Director for International and External Programs in the Office of Science & Technology. He also previously served as the Head of the Gas Dynamics and Thermophysics Laboratory in UTC’s Research Center. Prior to that he was a Professor of Engineering for 10 years on the faculties of the University of Cincinnati and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He started his career as a researcher in the US Navy Department Laboratories in Maryland. He has 14 patents, advised and graduated 14 PhDs, has published over 40 papers in referred journals and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.