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WIND TURBINE LEADERSHIP ROLES
LEADERSHIP/ EXECUTIVE TEAM + BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sary Nicolas                                         Ridwan Olawin
CEO                                                      CHIEF ENGINEER

Ray Ganesh                                          Carlos Cuevas
GENERAL COUNSEL                       CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

 Ogooluwakiitan Ogunbanjo
GEOLOGICAL ANALYST


Sary Nicolas
scn37@drexel.edu 


Sary Nicolas is currently attending Drexel University where she is majoring in Civil and Architectural engineering. Coming from a third world country, her goal is to come up with affordable and innovative projects which will help develop countries like the one she grew up in. Sary is interested in clean energy hence the current wind-turbine project in Tanzania and believes that all we need to be extraordinary is our brains and everyday objects.

Ridwan Olawin
rao53@drexel.edu

Ridwan Olawin is a Computer Engineering student at Drexel University. Here, he gets involved in innovative Engineering projects which include constructing NXT robots and programming it to perform a set of operations. Ridwan's need to integrate his Engineering techniques to help the society led him to get involved with clean energy and have it operated in Tanzania in order to provide electricity to people who need it.



Ray Ganesh
srg92@drexel.edu
Srivatsa Ganesh is a current freshman at Drexel University who plans to major in Mechanical Engineering. Having come from a country where resources are limited, he plans to make a difference by finding new and innovative ways to improve the conditions in developing countries, one being the construction of a wind turbine.






Carlos Cuevas
cc3492@drexel.edu
Carlos Cuevas is currently a freshman at Drexel University, majoring in Electrical Engineering. He is interested in helping third world countries gain access to electricity in more affordable and efficient way. This project would help him pursue his interests and understand how wind turbines can impact communities in positive ways.
                                      






Ogooluwakiitan Ogunbanjo
oeo25@drexel.edu
Ogooluwakiitan Ogunbanjo is a Mechanical Engineering student since 2016. Having come from a third world community where infrastructure can't compete with other countries on a world class level, he hopes to use his innovation to serve others through Engineering.









PROJECT CO-COORDINATORS
Peter Herczfeld                                      Scott Jeffers
INSTRUCTOR                                      FELLOW


Peter Herczfeld
herczfeld@coe.drexel.edu
Peter Herczfeld has been on the faculty of Drexel University since 1967. Currently, he is the Lester Kraus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Herczfeld received numerous teaching honors including the Mary and Christian Lindback Distinguished Teacher Award at Drexel University in 1995 and the IEEE-MTT-S Fred Rosenbaum Distinguished Educator Award in 1997.







Scott Jeffers
smj46@drexel.edu
PhD Student, Environmental Engineering

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