Exhibit 31.1


                  Certification of Principal Executive Officer
            Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

I,  Leonard A.  Rosenbaum,  the  principal  executive  officer of CVD  Equipment
Corporation, certify that:

     1. I have  reviewed  this  annual  report on Form  10-KSB of CVD  Equipment
Corporation;

     2.  Based  upon my  knowledge,  this  report  does not  contain  any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact  necessary to make
the statements made, in light of the  circumstances  under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

     3. Based upon my knowledge,  the financial statements,  and other financial
information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the
financial  condition,  results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as
of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

     4. The  registrant's  other  certifying  officer and I are  responsible for
establishing and maintaining  disclosure  controls and procedures (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

     (a)  Designed  such  disclosure  controls  and  procedures,  or caused such
disclosure  controls and  procedures to be designed  under our  supervision,  to
ensure that  material  information  relating to the  registrant,  including  its
consolidated subsidiaries,  is made known to us by others within those entities,
particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

     (b) Intentionally omitted.

     (c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and
procedures and presented in this report our conclusions  about the effectiveness
of the disclosure  controls and procedures,  as of the end of the period covered
by this report based on such evaluation; and

     (d)  Disclosed  in this  report  any  change in the  registrant's  internal
control over financial  reporting  that occurred  during the  registrant's  most
recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's  fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an
annual  report)  that  has  materially  affected,  or is  reasonably  likely  to
materially affect, the registrant's  internal control over financial  reporting;
and

     5.  The  small  business  issuer's  other  certifying  officer  and I  have
disclosed,  based  on our  most  recent  evaluation  of  internal  control  over
financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the
registrant's   board  of  directors  (or  persons   performing   the  equivalent
functions):

     (a) All significant  deficiencies and material  weaknesses in the design or
operation of internal  control over  financial  reporting  which are  reasonably
likely  to  adversely  affect  the  registrant's  ability  to  record,  process,
summarize and report financial data; and

     (b) Any fraud,  whether or not material,  that involves management or other
employees who have a significant role in the registrant's  internal control over
financial reporting.


Dated: March 31, 2008           /s/   Leonard A. Rosenbaum
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                                President, Chief Executive Office and Director