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                                                                    EXHIBIT 31.1

                Certification of the Principal Executive Officer

                     Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 78m(a) or 78o(d)

                 (Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)

I, Morris H. Wheeler, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cohesant
Technologies Inc. (the "Company"), certify that:

                  (1) I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of
                  the Company;

                  (2) Based on 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 on 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 Company as of, and for, the
                  periods presented in this report.

                  (4) The Company'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 Company and we 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) Evaluated the effectiveness of the Company'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

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

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

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

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

/s/ Morris H. Wheeler
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Morris H. Wheeler
Cohesant Technologies Inc.
President and Chief Executive Officer

September 17, 2003