Dayna Johnson had one of those a-ha career moments while visiting GE Gas Power’s Advanced Manufacturing Works, a state-of-the-art facility for new-make process and repair development in Greenville, South Carolina, this spring. Hung on a wall was an oversize poster of Thomas Edison, emblazoned with a few of his very wise words.
For almost 40 years, identical twins Laura Schreibeis and Lisa Kitko have called GE Aerospace their career home. When they were growing up, people often got the two confused. And when they arrived within a few years of each other at GE Aerospace, the same was true at work.
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When Chris Day was in sixth grade, he didn’t feel like one of the cool kids. That is, until the day he broke his battery-powered toy truck and brought it to his dad, James. Instead of buying a new one — Chris knew there was little chance of that — James took a screwdriver to the chassis and pulled out the motor. Then he showed Chris how to wire it to a propeller from a balsa wood airplane. They hooked up a 9-volt battery and voilà: a homemade electric fan. “I brought the fan to school and the kids went crazy,” Chris remembers.
When GE moved its headquarters to Boston in 2016, it made a commitment to the state’s leaders and citizens. In a show of allegiance to its new community, the company pledged to donate, over several years, a total of $50 million in support of local schools, job training programs, and healthcare initiatives. That promise was fulfilled with flying colors this past November, when the GE Foundation announced a $1.5 million grant to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) to launch the new GE Fellows Program.
GE, 130 yıldır dünyayı dönüştüren yenilikler ve milyonlarca insanın hayat kalitesini yükseltecek teknolojiler sunmayı büyük bir amaç olarak benimsiyor. Her gün temelinde sürdürülebilirlik olan bir dünya inşa etmek üzere çalışıyor ve zorlukların üstesinden geliyor. Sürdürülebilirlik stratejisi çerçevesinde çevresel, sosyal ve yönetişim (ESG) faaliyetleri gerçekleştiren GE içinde yer aldığı toplumu daha ileriye taşımak adına gençlere destek vermeye devam ediyor.
The accolades keep rolling in for Colin Parris. In January, the GE senior vice president and GE Digital chief technology officer won a 2022 BIG Innovation Award from the Business Intelligence Group. In February, he was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineers.
More than a decade ago, then GE CEO Jeff Immelt worried about the lack of women in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and math. So, along with other initiatives, GE divisions started running weeklong summer camps for young girls so they could explore the STEM world and maybe become inspired to enter it.
Deborah Woods has a dream. Motivated by a keen interest in science and a desire to help people, the sophomore at Woodward Career Technical High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, has already set her sights on a career in medicine and bioengineering. “I want to help those in need, like my grandmother, and [develop] preventive technologies for heart disease and failure,” she says. “I’ve learned that engineering isn’t a one-size-fits-all field but has many channels to explore and create many innovative things to help make our world an easier and better place all over.”
