It’s a scene you might see at any company: A group sits around a table, debating how to spend its resources. Building renovations? New computers? More equipment? This isn’t your average boardroom, however. It’s GE Aerospace’s engine assembly plant in Durham, North Carolina. And the meeting attendees aren’t executives; they’re the process owners and experts — highly skilled and self-directed technicians. Durham is one of the first GE Aerospace facilities to use a leadership approach called “teaming,” in which the teammates doing the work help run the plant. Representatives from each team work ..read more

When Bianca McCartt returned to a design engineer role as a Combustion Diffuser Nozzle (CDN) Structures engineer at GE Aerospace in 2016, she knew she’d face some skepticism going back into a technical engineering position. McCartt had been working on the company’s Evendale campus since 2004. She’d designed and analyzed turbine airfoils, combustion components, and rotating parts, and she already had a patent in thermal inspection systems. But when she left hands-on mechanical engineering to lead professional development programs for the GE Aerospace Engineering Division in 2013, she broke wh ..read more

Michał Janczak was a 10-year-old growing up Warsaw when he received his first LEGO Technic set. Technic components, which include rods, gears, and other specialized parts in addition to the basic LEGO bricks, weren’t available in Poland at the time, but his father bought him a set while on an international business trip. The gift helped Janczak create countless new creations while paving the way for a future design engineering career. “That was when I started to see LEGO bricks as a serious tool to express my creativity,” he recalls. “In my childhood, every day without LEGO play was a wasted ..read more

This being Leap Day, it seems appropriate to celebrate one of the most popular commercial aircraft propulsion systems on the market today: the CFM LEAP engine. Built to fit all variants of Airbus A320neo, Boeing 737 MAX, and COMAC C919 passenger jets, the LEAP engine entered service in 2016 and quickly made good on its promise to increase fuel efficiency, reduce noise and CO2 emissions, and enable high aircraft utilization rates. To date, it has maintained a 15% to 20% improvement in fuel efficiency over its immediate predecessor (the CFM56 engine) and has delivered best-in-class departure r ..read more

Growing up on the North Fork of Long Island after the Second World War, Marshall Jones didn’t know any Black people who had gone to college. The great-uncle who helped raise him labored on a duck farm. His classmates at Aquebogue Elementary School aspired to be farmers as well, or athletes. Jones, though, dreamed of piloting jets like the ones he saw flying over his house from the nearby Grumman Aircraft factory. When his nearsightedness prevented him from doing that, he chose a different path, becoming one of just 12 Black PhD engineers in the entire United States as of the early 1970s and ..read more

As the deputy propulsion lead for NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet, a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft that will fly faster than Mach 1 and higher than most high-performance airplanes, Paul Dees has no end of tasks to keep him busy. On a macro level, he oversees the integration, testing, and operations of the jet’s F414-GE-100 engine. Day to day, that means working with a team of three engineers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Center in Edwards, California, four engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, their counterparts at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in nearby Palm ..read more

Nikita Porter, GE Aerospace Senior Commercial Ops Leader for Defense & Systems, is the voice of the people. Having positive influences in her life that taught her compassion and caring for others, she shares her story of triumph and tribulations, and her strong focus for lifting people up by treating everyone with respect, making them feel like they belong, and being a voice for others. Watch as Nikita shares her inspiring journey, and the experiences that have led her to give back to others ..read more

GE Aerospace’s Engine Services facility in Singapore (GEAESS) has chalked up a series of impressive credits in its time. Here are three, for starters: It’s the company’s largest maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) site for engine components, it handles more than 60% of the company’s component repairs by volume, and in 2021 it became the first MRO site to use additive manufacturing technology to repair commercial engine parts. This week, at the Singapore Airshow, it announced another significant advance: an $11 million investment to transform the facility into a state-of-the-art “Smart Fa ..read more

Calisa Horton was looking for a challenging career when she chose accounting. But looking back, she thinks if she had more resources like those that GE Aerospace offers, she may have chosen engineering. An active member of GE Aerospace’s African American Forum (AAF) employee resource group, she’s dedicated her volunteer time and talent to Next Engineers, a program that brings awareness of STEM fields to people of color and women. For Horton, who started her career at GE nine years ago, the work done with NEXT Engineers is personal. When she attended Kentucky State University, where she obtai ..read more

The classrooms at Narlıca Middle School in Hatay, Türkiye were buzzing with activity. More than 60 students were busy working, with colored paper and scissors in hand. It wasn’t long before buildings were standing tall on students’ desks, alongside houses with rooftop solar panels, wind turbines, trees, and boats on rivers. These primary school children were building paper models of sustainable cities as part of a General Electric and Habitat Association initiative in Türkiye that reached more than 8,200 students. Through dozens of online and in-person sessions, the “Youth Pathway to Science ..read more