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 <brb>Company</b>: Green Roof Team LLC, Founder

<b>Degree</b>: Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate with a specialization in Energy Engineering and minors in Sustainability and Math<br> <b>What can you contact me about?</b> Developing leadership skills, professional development, topics in sustainability and renewable energy and engineering, interdisciplinary learning, design thinking methodology, running, jokes, Chicagoand hiking/traveling!

<b>YouTube</b>'''Green Roof Team LLC's Website''': httpshttp://www.youtubegreenroofteam.com/channel/UCQ7OOaVEYB59eS5KGmn8VPg<br> Nelson Fernandes is a received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering undergraduate at from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Born and raised in Chicago, he ventured to SIU after high school which is about six chose Southern Illinois (6 hours south ) for university because of the Windy City to explore new opportunities and experiencescare one faculty member showed him as a mentor for a research project his senior year of high school. Stepping out Made a wide variety of his comfort zone, spent the first two years exploring campus and making friends along with joining different organizations. In addition to the way ranging from the TRiO program to Honors College to Innovation Fellows, an executive member of Undergraduate Student Government, Engineering Student Council to Robotics to the , Leadership Development Program and the University Innovation Fellows, Robotics Team. Building relationships and accumulating Then, expanded his knowledge from various field to produce excellence with the ability to solve complex problems with a background in multiple fields. Currently completing professional training in renewable energy through the Renewable European Energy Centre and will become an Energy, Engineering, Management Technician which provides the credentials to lead and Finance sectors along manage clean energy projects! [[File:Green-Roof-Team Temporary-Wind-Turbine.jpg|thumb|Here is a view of the SIU Green Roof with becoming Apple Hardware Certifiedour student designed Vertical Axis Wind Turbine.|link=Special:FilePath/Green-Roof-Team_Temporary-Wind-Turbine.  The jpg]]One important organization Nelson was a member of, is the Leadership Development Program is a nationally recognized NSF program where students undergo an intense two year program of 5:30AM workouts and 6:00AM morning meetings. As a first year, we focus on leading ourselves through developing our servant leadership skills and leading a project once a semester. As a second year, I stepped into a Coaching position where I guided four first year members through the year by reinforcing the primary leadership practices and project management skills. The growth I have made during my time in the program allowed myself to grow into the person I am today. One defining moment was leading our yearly Applied Project. This Applied Project was a three day event at a local electronics company where I led 15 undergraduate members and three Black Belt Six Sigma Masters in a major lean manufacturing project where we redesigned a process for receiving incoming packages which is a major bottleneck as well as a route for their tugger train as well as how to better organize their inventory for optimal and efficient process. A leader who focuses on building relationships with the team and planning ahead to make sure the job gets done. And the skills I have learned, enabled me to develop my U.I.F. project into something larger than originally thought. [[File:Wind Turbine Installation.jpg|thumb|Here is an image of one of the three wind turbines we installed at SIU Carbondale. The first wind energy generating devices on campus!|link=Special:FilePath/Wind_Turbine_Installation.jpg]]As a University Innovation Fellow, Nelson worked with the College of Agriculture specifically by revitalizing and modernizing the for transforming their existing green space (Green Roof to become ) into an innovative space interdisciplinary innovation hub for multidisciplinary research to be housedparticipatory learning. The roof was installed in 2010 for agricultural research; however, quickly became increasingly underutilized between the retirement of the professor who held ownership and lack of ownership among those involved. The plan became unknown to revitalize and modernize the space through a project where a team of students will be recruited for have a major clean up along with installing an autonomous irrigation system, to solve once the watering needs, data acquisition device, the previous system's contract expired several years ago and was not renewed, and a wind turbinedean retired around 2018. The next step is incorporating engineering and agricultural students' research goal was focused on the roof and increase the research utilization from 1%. Yes, among the 0.1 acre of available space, approximately one percent is occupied launching several marketing campaigns for researchpromotion, while boosting recognition of the space among students and faculty hosting design thinking workshops for opportunities. The space was funded by the Student Green Fee; therefore, belongs to the empathizing with students rather than the Agriculture Building it resides on.  Aside from the Green Roof project, Nelson has hosted several Design Thinking Workshops specifically for the Green Roof in person and online with other SIU Fellowspursuing an engineering project to showcase opportunities. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Nelson and his fellow Fellows decided to host more workshops to collaborate with our peers and friends around the world they have met at the FH Salzburg's Alps Meetup. In the Spring 2020, Nelson and several other Fellows from SIU traveled to Salzburg, Austria, and participated in their Alps Meetup. Enjoyed every inute minute of the sleep deprived trip and soaked every experience possible. The most noteworthy experience is working in an Urban Mobility workshop to redesign ways of better utilizing the parking spaces of the FH University. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqLravPcswM&feature=youtu.be)

Accepted as The most known activity was recruiting a cross-university team of students to design and install a UIguide in Summer 2020 where Nelson plans small Wind Turbine on sharing his experiences leading the building to promote innovation and creating to use of the outdoor research facility. The encouragement of the cross-university team was berth at the start of the cohorts pandemic when tools from Zoom, MURAL, etc. were encouraged and other Fellows for helping others growlearned quickly by students. Always willing We found opportunity from a time where many events were being removed while finding ways to help, known improve our communication skills especially for answering emails within 24 hours and connecting with those he meet on LinkedIn (inside joke worth knowing about)engineering design virtually.

[[File:Agriculture Building's The UIF Project led to the formation of the Green RoofTeam LLC where Nelson and five outstanding team members among the 50 members are developing educational kits to sell based on their projects ranging from clean energy to artificial intelligence.jpg|thumb|300x300px]]Additionally, the company offers internship opportunities in the marketing and clean energy engineering fields to provide opportunities to students understand their own passions with a guiding mentor as well as move forward professionally!

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