Recently two of our Board members - Oscar Martinez and Michael Mokka, have resigned, Oscar due to relocation to another city, and Michael due to extended international travel.

We thank them for their contributions and wish them all the very best in their future.

We would like to welcome to our Board Tomas Mendez as our new VP of Finance.

Tomas, born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, attended Marquette University and graduated with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He worked a mix of sales and structural design jobs before joining Duke Energy, where he has held roles as a Project Engineer in Distribution Design, and is currently the Distribution Planning Engineer for the Downtown A.C. Secondary Network. He also oversees Capacity Planning in the Central West area of Cincinnati. Tomas also holds a number of roles as President of Student with Special Smiles, Chair of Latinos Energizing Diversity (a Duke Energy employee resource group), the United Way fundraising committee, the Artswave fundraising committee, liaison between Duke Energy and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Diversity Lead in Duke Energy’s Midwest Delivery Organization, member of the American Red Cross Diversity Committee, and volunteer for fundraising work at the Great American Ballpark.

The SHPE Cincinnati conducted in June elections for the 2013/2014 Executive Board, and the final results are in: 

PRESIDENT Priscilla Davila	VP, Corporate Relations  Homero Gonzalez	VP, Community Relations  Victor Marrero	VP, Finance Oscar Martinez	VP, Operations Michael Mokka	VP, Marketing Michael Beck

For detailed bios of individual Board members, please visit this page

Board members who work for GE Aviation participated this week at the GE Hispanic Summit.

The keynote speaker was Pilar Montoya, the CEO of SHPE.

It was a perfect opportunity to meet with her and exchange ideas about SHPE.

On June 21, SHPE Board Members went together to Reds Game. It was a very long game, but the most important thing was that Reds won!

On May 6th, the Cincinnati’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) hosted its 1st TOYOTA Plant Tour as part of SHPE STEM initiatives for Hispanic children in the Greater Cincinnati region. 

A total of 10 students from the First Lego League Robotics initiative at the Academy of Multilingual Immersion Studies (AMIS) and 18 students from the SHPE Jr. Chapter initiative at Withrow University High School participated on the tour. The adults in attendance were 4 SHPE Cincinnati Board Members and 1 Teacher from Withrow. 

The kids were able to see first hand how their experience with robotics competition can be utilized later on in real life with real indurstrial robots. It was a great experience for them, and a great motivation!

We would like to thank Toyota for making it possible!