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STEMconnector®, the One-Stop for “who” is doing “what” in STEM education and careers, released the official list and cover for its 100 CEO Leaders in STEM publication. The unprecedented publication presents 100 corporate CEO profiles including their thought provoking views on the future of our national competitiveness and need for a STEM workforce. The CEO’s center their discussions around technology; innovation; skills to careers; public-private partnerships; women, girls and diversity; global competitiveness; scalability and best practice. 100 CEO Leaders in STEM include GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt.

Winds of Change magazine introduced their first annual list of the “Top 50 Best STEM Workplaces” for Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The list celebrates companies that support diversity in the workplace and especially for Native American STEM professionals. Companies included in the Winds of Change list of the “Top 50 Best STEM Workplaces” meet certain criteria established solely by the Winds of Change editorial staff. Selected companies completed surveys designed to demonstrate their overall diversity recruitment efforts and/or were included within the past year in at least one published list from two different sources that recognize top firms dedicated to diversity recruiting. In addition, selected companies must also be actively recruiting for occupations within STEM fields and have specifically recruited Native American and Alaska Natives within the past two years. GE came in 18th.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has partnered with Intel and GE to change the status quo through a targeted set of grants whose projects take creative approaches in engaging and retaining undergraduates in engineering and computer science. Both fields are dynamic, encompassing areas of focus that didn’t even exist a couple of decades ago–from green energy and advanced robotics to cybersecurity. Engineering and computer science also offer good careers with salaries that can make a life-changing difference, especially to first-generation college students and their families.

GE took its first stab at hosting a live Q&A on Reddit’s famed IAmA forum (read: I am a digital media expert, ask me anything, for example) beginning TODAY at 2pm EST. The IAmA forum reaches hundreds of thousands of readers daily and has featured the likes of President Obama and Bill Gates to Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion and Louis C.K. The IAmA will feature Jim Bray (GE’s chief scientist) as well as other GE researchers fielding questions from the Reddit community about the future of electricity. You can participate in this groundbreaking, real-time exchange where you can ask anything from “why did the lights go out at the Super Bowl?” to “when will all cars be powered by electricity?” and so on. Log on to Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/) and look for the IAmA that reads “We are the team of researchers and scientists at GE working on the ‘Future of Electricity.’ Ask Us Anything.” Join the conversation and ask away!

On April 18th Julie DeWane, VP Global Supply Chain, Measurement & Control, was awarded the Purdue Outstanding Industrial Engineering Award. Back in 1997, the Faculty of Purdue’s School of Industrial Engineering established the Outstanding Industrial Engineer award to recognize those alumni who have distinguished themselves through exemplary technical and leadership accomplishments in the field of industrial engineering and related areas. Honorees are selected from any of the broad areas of industrial engineering and acknowledged for their contribution to their communities and the nation. Since then 104 alumni have been honored with the prestigious Outstanding Industrial Engineer award.