We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Castellanos is joining the Board as the new VP of Corporate Relations. 

Elizabeth is a leader with more than 20 years of experience driving organizational change. She is currently working for Pentair as the Global EHS Director, in her previous experience she collaborated for Fortune 500 companies such as General Motors, Cemex, PepsiCo and Heineken. She has a strong track record of achievement as evidence of his ability to provide strategic direction and integrate safety, health and the environment into the organization's core value system.

Her experience in the EHS field covers all areas of the business: manufacturing, distribution, warehousing; commercial and administrative areas, extensions and new constructions. She has served in executive positions in Mexico, Europe and the United States, as a national, regional and global leader. She has been a coach for multidisciplinary teams around the world. She is recognized for her passion and commitment to drive transformational change in organizations.

Castellanos is an Engineer and is currently studying an MBA from the University of Barcelona, has published articles and has been a speaker and panelist at an international level on topics such as: safety in multicultural environments, the role of the safety professional, leadership, and diversity and inclusion.

2021 GE Aviation Technical Fall Co-ops OPEN positions – Apply today!

GE Aviation is looking for 2021 Technical Fall Co-ops, starting in August 2021-December 2021.
Help invent the future of flight, lift people up, and bring them home safely. In this position you’ll build leadership and functional skills in one of the following areas: engineering, software engineering, supply chain, or services. You’ll be given challenging work and real-world problems, and you’ll prepare for a potential full-time position after graduation into one of our amazing leadership programs. 

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA off a 4.0 scale without rounding
• Attending a full time matriculated and nationally accredited baccalaureate or graduate program
• Dependable transportation to and from work as public transportation is not available in many locations
• Willingness and ability to work in any of the 40+ GE Aviation US locations
• Due to access to export-controlled information, you must be one of the following: (1) US Citizen or national; (2) US permanent resident; (3) Person granted refugee status; (4) Person granted asylee status or Beneficiary of legalization through an amnesty program, or (5) other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

If you are interested in being considered for the position, please apply online to the link below. We are going to be taking applications until February 26^th and plan to begin scheduling interviews as early as February 10^th!

Link to application: Fall 2021 (job number 3500754) -- https://jobs.gecareers.com/global/en/j ... Technical-Co-op-Fall-2021">https://jobs.gecareers.com/global/en/j ... Technical-Co-op-Fall-2021

Timeline

• February 8^th - Applications open
• February 10^th – Interviews start
• February 26^th – Applications close
• March 12^th – All applicants to be notified of status

We look forward to hearing from you! 

We are pleased to announce that Maribel Cortes Conde has been appointed by the Board as the new President of SHPE Cincinnati. 

Maribel is a GE Aviation Sr Technical Project Manager working on an important migration project across the whole engineering community. Born and raised in Mexico City, Cortes Conde holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic Institute in Mexico. Her career in a male dominated industry includes managing outsourcing IT operations with teams in Mexico, India, China and USA. Some of the clients in US included GE Aviation, GE Energy, GE Transportation, Anheuser Busch and Mitel Networks in Canada.

Maribel’s passion for education moved her to support the Cincinnati Ohio Hispanic Community with volunteering work at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, supporting organizations such as Su Casa, LULAC and Santa Maria etc.

She is an active member of the GE Aviation Hispanic Forum and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which have been a platform to support Cincinnati Public school kids during the pandemic, where she led the initiative to provide refurbished laptops to ESL students within the school district.

Maribel has 2 daughters, Sophia Munoz(16) and Tamara Munoz(14) who attend Walnut Hills High School and is married to Walter Munoz, who is also an active member supporting the Hispanic community.

We thank the SHPE UC student chapter of Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) - National Group for organizing the Noche de Ciencias at Roberts Academy: A Paideia Learning Community
Noche de Ciencias or Night of Science is a national program of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and was initiated in 2008 as a way to introduce students and families to science and engineering through hands-on activities and exposure to college and career information in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

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FIRST® LEGO® League introduces young people, ages 9 to 16* (grades 4-8), to the fun and excitement of science and technology while building self-confidence, knowledge, and valuable career and life skills. The program challenges kids to think like scientists and engineers. Alongside adult Mentors, teams solve problems using engineering concepts, presentation techniques, and robots.

Children

• Solve real-world engineering challenges
• Discover career possibilities
• Apply Core Values and learn to make positive contributions to society
• Engage with their community

Teams

• Apply math and science concepts to research, design, build, and program autonomous robots
• Use LEGO MINDSTORMS® technologies 
• Gain hands-on experience solving real-world problems
• Learn from and interact with adult Mentors
• Work as a group to overcome obstacles and meet challenges
• Investigate, strategize, design, build, program, and test their robotic inventions
• Search the web, talk to scientists, visit the library, and develop compelling research resentations which relate to a problem or question facing the world today
• Develop employment and life skills including critical thinking, time management, collaboration, and communication while becoming more self-confident
• May compete with peers in high energy, sports-like tournaments

SHPE Cincinnati has been coaching students from AMIS (Academy For Multilingual Immersion Studies) for over 5 years now. 

Today our students participated in a qualifying tournament, and while they didn't advance to the next round, they won the Judges Award for "We Work Together" !!!!! 

Clearly the best teamwork!!!

If you would like to help young students in the Elementary School to learn technology (Robotics, Computers) please join SHPE Cincinnati!!! 

We're always looking for volunteers!, please contact us