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SHPE-NYC History

The New York City Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE-NYC) formed in 1987 and was incorporated in 1988 by a group of Hispanic engineers and scientists responding to a need to unite Hispanic culture and professionals in the New York City Metropolitan area. The founders aspired to both provide positive role models to young professionals while creating a strong member network.


SHPE History

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1974 by a group of engineers employed by the City of Los Angeles. Their objective was to form a national organization of professional engineers to serve as role models in the Hispanic community.

The concept of networking was the essential basis for the organization. SHPE quickly established two student chapters to begin the network that would grow to encompass the nation as well as reach countries outside the United States. Today, SHPE enjoys a strong but independent network of professional and student chapters throughout the nation. By expanding at an aggressive pace and currently includes 170 student chapters with more than 5300 student members and 42 professional chapters with over 1500 professional members.

SHPE is the leading social-technical organization whose primary function is to enhance and achieve the potential of Hispanics in engineering, math and science. For detailed information about SHPE as a national organization visit www.shpe.org.

The SHPE Mission: SHPE is the Source for Quality Hispanic Engineers and Technical Talent.

The SHPE Vision: SHPE is the leading social-technical organization whose primary function is to enhance and achieve the potential of Hispanics in engineering, math and science.


SHPE Student Chapter Involvement

The chapter serves New York City, Long Island and parts of New Jersey. Our student chapters include the
following schools:


Current Board Members

Edward Montenegro

Edward Montenegro - SHPE-NYC President

Edward is a Software Developer with Barclays Capital. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the City College of New York. Edward has been actively involved with SHPE, having held positions on the National Board of Directors, regional leadership council, various committees and is a Manager for the Eastern Technical Career Conference (ETCC).

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Leony Rosa

Leony Rosa - SHPE-NYC Finance Vice President

Leony is a Wireless Test Engineer for the Northrop Grumman Corporation. He has earned a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York (CCNY). He has been involved with SHPE since 1998 and has served terms as Secretary and External Vice President of the LAESA-SHPE chapter of CCNY. He also has been chair of the Corporate, Professional, and Advisor registrations for the Eastern Technical and Career Conference (ETCC) for over three years. He has also been chair for the Professional, and Advisor registrations for the SHPE National Conference.

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Melanie Villatoro

Melanie Villatoro - SHPE-NYC Internal Vice President

Ms. Villatoro is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management at the New York City College of Technology. Ms. Villatoro specializes in geotechnical engineering and has nine years of experience providing engineering services primarily for residential, commercial and waterfront developments. Ms. Villatoro earned a Bachelors of Engineering in Civil Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a Masters of Science in Geotechnical Engineering from Columbia University. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of NY.

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Javier

Javier De Carlos - SHPE-NYC External Vice President

Javier is a Product Development Engineer at Systemax. He has an M.S. Industrial engineer and B.S. Electronics engineer, fluent in English and Spanish, with six years of professional experience in manufacturing processes and product development. Javier had the opportunity to attend the 2011 NILA conference on behalf of SHPE-NYC.

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Luis

Luis A. Martinez - SHPE-NYC Marketing

Luis is currently a Leadership Development Program Associate at Integra LifeSciences.

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