Alex Romanowski
About Me
I am a senior in the Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program pursuing a degree in finance and a minor in mechanics of materials. By spring ‘24 I will have my Master’s from Lehigh in Energy System’s Engineering. I enjoy the intersection between engineering and business, working on teams, and challenging myself. After college I want to work in sustainable development, energy systems engineering, renewables, energy storage, or nuclear power generation.
I used data cleaning techniques and machine learning to optimize regression that predicts housing prices given a multitude of factors.
Team project
Coming Soon!
In our project, we are using machine learning and regression to determine how CEO and Director compensation impacts firm performance.
Active Solar Development LLC: Solar Site Designer and Land Aqcuisition Intern
Land Screening, GIS, and Site Design
Over the past year with Active Solar, I have worked with my land development team to imporve and streamline our site screening and design process.
Warehouse Rooftop Solar Design
This design was created for a rooftop solar installation on a warehouse in upstate NY.
Career Objectives
Highlights
- Dedicate my career to making American infrastructure resilient while having a positive impact on the environment.
- Work in the sustainable development industry building net zero or high efficiency buildings or the energy sector.
- Find a job that utilizes techno-economic analysis to implement the best technology at the highest returns for a given project.
As a country, we are woefully unprepared to handle the challenges climate change is going to bring to the table. This is why I’m dedicating my career to making American infrastructure resilient while having a positive impact on the environment.
I believe that we can make our country more secure by decentralizing our grid, focusing on local food production, and building high efficiency buildings that can passively heat and cool themselves. By shifting our infrastructure to a model of self-reliance, communities will remain stable in times of uncertainty and supply chain disruptions.
That’s all well and good, but what does that mean for a career, and how can I make profits from this? As I’ve seen through working for Active Solar, the market is asking for sustainable development. It is easier now than ever to leverage government incentives and market trends to create green projects with stable returns that work towards my vision of a more secure America. The technology is available to create net zero or passive house certified buildings that see positive returns over the life of the project. Currently, high upfront costs and a lack of initiative are hindering the markets’ adoption of these technologies. However, these projects work at market rate. This past summer, I learned through my work at Solara, one of New York’s first net zero apartment complexes, that these projects work at market rate.
Ultimately, I would like to find a job where I can utilize both my engineering and finance background to optimize projects through techno-economic analysis. I’m still trying to learn more about the market and what roles actually do that. There is a lot of fascinating building technology out there and I would like to be the one to seamlessly fit it all together. Once the demand for sustainable development grows, I would like to work on mixed use (live/work/play) projects that have on site energy generation and food production.
This next year, I will be doing more market research for my master’s thesis. I plan to focus my topic around net zero developement. I will be analyzing existing projects, doing market survey’s, and ultimatley conduting a market feasability test for net zero development in several regions across the country.
Woodworking Portfolio
Here are some of the projects that I have done while at Lehigh. I’m adding these in because the projects give an accurate reflection of how I problem solve and create solutions to fit the needs of a given situation.
Sigma Phi Delta: 10’ Bar and DJ Stand
I lead the team that designed, budgeted, and built our bar and DJ stand. I’m incredibly proud of these projects because they are the largest and most complicated projects I have personally designed and executed.
Night Stand with Compound Angles
I love pushing myself. This project for my furniture design class definitely pushed my limits with precision, ingenuity, and geometry skills.
In my furniture design class we were prompted with making a hand carved spoon and a holder that utilized joinary.
Bent Lamination Coffee Table
This is the project that I am currently working on for one of my fraternity’s alumni. All proceeds from the table will go towards additional furniture for the chapter house.
The table top will be a live edge beach slab. The arched aprons will be ash (if I can find it) or oak because they have consitent grains needed for the bent lamination. The legs will be walnut to provide a dark/light contrast. I’m looking forward to the end product because I know it’ll beautiful.
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