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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 , Robotics Team. Then, expanded his knowledge in renewable energy through the European Energy Centre and will become an Energy Management Technician which provides the University Innovation Fellowscredentials to lead and manage clean energy projects! [[File:Green-Roof-Team Temporary-Wind-Turbine. Building relationships and accumulating knowledge from various field to produce excellence with jpg|thumb|Here is a view of the ability to solve complex problems SIU Green Roof with our student designed Vertical Axis Wind Turbine.|link=Special:FilePath/Green-Roof-Team_Temporary-Wind-Turbine.jpg]]One important organization Nelson was a background in multiple fields.  The 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 for transforming their existing green space (Green Roof) into an interdisciplinary innovation hub for participatory learning. The roof was installed in 2010 for agricultural research; however, quickly became unknown to students once the dean retired around 2018. The goal was focused on launching several marketing campaigns for promotion, hosting design thinking workshops for empathizing with students, and pursuing 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 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)

As The most known activity was recruiting a University Innovation Fellow, Nelson worked with the College cross-university team of Agriculture specifically by revitalizing students to design and modernizing install a small Wind Turbine on the existing Green Roof building to become an innovative space for multidisciplinary promote innovation and use of the outdoor research to be housedfacility. The roof was installed in 2010 for agricultural research; however, became increasingly underutilized between the retirement encouragement of the professor who held ownership and lack of ownership among those involved. The plan became to revitalize and modernize cross-university team was berth at the space through a project where a team start of students will be recruited for have a major clean up along with installing an autonomous irrigation system, to solve the watering needs, data acquisition devicepandemic when tools from Zoom, the previous system's contract expired several years ago and was not renewedMURAL, and a wind turbineetc. The next step is incorporating engineering were encouraged and agricultural learned quickly by students' research on the roof and increase the research utilization . We found opportunity from 1%. Yes, among the 0.1 acre of available space, approximately one percent is occupied a time where many events were being removed while finding ways to improve our communication skills especially for researchengineering 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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