General Electric (NYSE: GE) is an American industrial company formed in 1892 when Thomas Edison's Edison General Electric Company merged with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. For most of the twentieth century it was a diversified conglomerate spanning power generation, aviation, healthcare, lighting, appliances, broadcasting, and financial services. Since April 2024 the GE name and ticker have belonged to GE Aerospace, which makes jet engines and propulsion systems for commercial and military aircraft.
GE took apart its conglomerate structure over the 2010s and 2020s. It spun off GE HealthCare in January 2023 and its energy businesses as GE Vernova on April 2, 2024, and the remaining company then renamed itself GE Aerospace. GE was long known for its management and technical development programs, including the Edison Engineering Development Program. That program was established in 1923, is named for Edison, and rotates early-career engineers through several technical assignments while they take advanced engineering coursework. Through the early 1990s, GE's aerospace electronics operations in Syracuse, New York, built radar and sonar systems for defense customers. GE sold that business to Martin Marietta in 1993.
After graduating from 📝Clarkson University, I took a job at GE in Syracuse in its Edison Engineering Program, where I worked as an 📝Electrical Engineer on radar and sonar projects. While I was there, I earned my master's in electrical and computer engineering at 📝Syracuse University.