March 21, 2012
General Electric Co., has committed to hiring 5,000 military veterans in the next five years, and it reinforced its commitment Thursday when it co-sponsored an employment and business expo for veterans at the Stamford branch of the University of Connecticut. More than 70 businesses and government agencies manned booths at the Operation Home2Work event, which was also sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Small Business Administration and Department of Labor.
March 12, 2012
GE Canada recently celebrated taking on its 500th intern by inviting both the first and last intern, plus other alumni, to a gathering at its corporate headquarters in Meadowvale.
March 11, 2012
A new multi-university initiative announced March 8 will provide best-practices training for people working in the rapidly growing shale natural gas and oil development sector. The effort involves Penn State, the University of Texas at Austin and the Colorado School of Mines; training programs will be led by faculty at each academic institution and are designed to ensure that regulators and policymakers have access to the latest technological and operational expertise to assist in their oversight of shale development. ExxonMobil and GE, two major U.S. energy corporations, each will contribute $1 million to the new educational effort.
March 2, 2012
For over a decade, GE Healthcare has partnered with academic researchers from Purdue, Notre Dame and Michigan, and experts from Intel, to develop Veo – the world’s first Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBiR) technique. Available on GE’s Discovery* CT750 HD, Veo changes the rules of CT imaging by helping physicians provide accurate diagnoses with high quality images while enabling them to lower patients’ radiation dose levels.
February 20, 2012
Many corporations and businesses showed engineering students job and internship opportunities at an Engineering Career Fair. The event was held on the second level of the K-State Student Union from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
