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Vasudevan reading a book to her two kids on the couch

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Life Hacker: This Cybersecurity Specialist Started Bringing Her Full Self to Work, and Something Amazing Happened

In fall 2021, Arthi Vasudevan, product line leader for cybersecurity at Gas Power at GE Vernova, was working from home in Houston when there was a knock at her door. It was her seven-year-old son, sharing some exciting news. He’d just unlocked a new level on his video game, thanks to the help of a stranger online. Vasudevan hid her alarm. “The moment you start to preach, kids disconnect from you,” she says. “But inside, I was freaking out.”
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For These Aspiring Women Engineers of Tomorrow, It’s Full STEAM Ahead

Teaching a group of young girls to extract DNA from fruit — over videoconference, due to the pandemic — wasn’t in Miguel Angel Herranz del Pino’s job description. But the field operation process manager at GE Vernova in Madrid, Spain, stepped in two years ago when a co-worker was unable to take the class during the site’s first-ever STEAM Girls Spain Summer Camp. This year, Herranz del Pino was a camp counselor again, this time in person. If wrangling 10-year-old girls was challenging over Zoom, doing it live was even harder — but far more rewarding.
Veronica Barner in front of a field of windmills

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This Brilliant Engineer Realized Her Purpose in a Bolivian Town. Now She’s Blazing a Trail for Her Female Peers

Like most teenagers, Veronica Barner used to act out. Growing up in Bolivia in the late 1990s with two chemical engineers for parents, she would tell her friends that she was going to be a doctor, not an engineer. “That was my rebellious phase,” says Barner, who eventually realized her true calling and is now the head of research and development for Renewable Energy at GE Vernova.
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Breakthrough Allies: Here’s How GE Vernova and ARPA-E Are Tackling the Energy Transition

In 2009, the United States Department of Energy was seeking a dose of radical thinking. Early that year, its newly created Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) issued an open call for “the most revolutionary energy technologies.” If ARPA-E officials were expecting a steady trickle of ideas from business, academia, and research laboratories, they were wrong. They’d just opened the floodgates.
Vera Silver planting a tree

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Electrical Eminence: GE Vernova’s Vera Silva Stuck With Her Vision, and Two Major Awards Speak to the Results

When she learned that she’d been inducted into two of the world’s most prestigious science academies, Vera Silva felt, naturally enough, electrified.
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Change Agent: How GE’s Dayna Johnson Advocates for Diversity in Engineering With Women Everywhere

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.
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Feeling Connected: How Engineer Devon Shepherd Put On Her Authentic Face and Succeeded at GE

When she was a little girl, every Friday for six years of her childhood in Columbus, Ohio, Devon Shepherd’s family would get in their minivan and drive to the airport to watch planes take off and land. Shepherd marveled at how amazing they were. What makes them fly? she often wondered.
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Blending Art and Science: GE Engineer Colin Parris Transforms Curiosity Into Innovation

As an electrical engineering major at Howard University in the 1980s, Colin Parris received a tricky assignment: Build a small burglar alarm that would turn on a light when a switch was opened. He painstakingly assembled a board with 300 wires, reattaching them every time they got jiggled out of place in his locker. He estimates the project took 40 to 50 hours.Then Parris was asked to use an 8-bit microprocessor to complete the same assignment. With 10 wires connected to LED lights and a small amount of programming, he built his second burglar alarm in about three hours.
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Digital Pioneer: GE’s Colin Parris Named 2023 Black Engineer of the Year

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.