{"id":19360,"date":"2014-10-13T19:54:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=19360"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:48:33","slug":"ge-fellows-tour-facility-hear-about-life-after-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/10\/ge-fellows-tour-facility-hear-about-life-after-school\/","title":{"rendered":"GE Fellows Tour Facility, Hear About Life After School"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nine GE Fellows who recently toured the Plainville General Electric facility\u00a0got a chance to see the concepts they study put into action.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Fellows \u2013 all pursuing studies in the areas of advanced materials, magnetic materials, polymeric materials, and energy and modeling \u2013 toured the facility and met with officials from the company. Paul Singer, General Manager of Technology for GE\u2019s Industrial Solutions, and Matt Dougherty, Technology Leader for Industrial Solution\u2019s Power Components business, spoke to the students and answered their questions about working in the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

The students were then given tours of the New Product Introduction Accelerator Lab and Advanced Manufacturing Lab. Kan Fu, a UConn research assistant and 2014 Fellow, called the visit \u201c<\/em>an eye-opening experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very educational to see how engineers at GE go through the cycles of design –\u00a0test, evaluate, redesign and retesting – which is the essential process\u00a0for making a successful product,\u201d he said. \u201cThings that appear simple, such as a circuit breaker, carry a lot of intellectual development and persistence\u00a0that many people do not appreciate fully.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jian Ren, another Fellow, said it\u2019s important to see their studies put to real-world use.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve clearly seen the difference between industry and academia,\u201d he said. \u201cThis helps a lot for our career planning and development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The GE Fellowship for Innovation <\/a>program was established in 2012 as part of the company\u2019s $7.5 million technology initiative. Besides expanding the partnership of UConn and GE, the initiative is designed to assist students in\u00a0pursuing their studies, and in some cases, lead to careers at GE for Fellows after graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The nine GE Fellows who toured the Plainville General Electric facility last week got a chance to see the concepts they study put into action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":224145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[37],"class_list":["post-19360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 17:12:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224148,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19360\/revisions\/224148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19360"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=19360"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}