{"id":18632,"date":"2022-09-19T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/celebrating-national-hispanic-heritage-month\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:00:04","slug":"celebrating-national-hispanic-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/celebrating-national-hispanic-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear campus community,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-140467 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rodriguez_Hector_8783-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>The Latinx community has contributed greatly to the American experience and each year we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.\u00a0 This is a time when we pay tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched our nation and society.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme is Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger Nation. Our diversity is our strength, and our contributions to the culture, the economy, and the future of our nation cannot be denied.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our celebration we recognize Dr. H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez, the college\u2019s Dean of STEM.\u00a0 Dr. Rodr\u00edguez initially joined Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in January 2022 as the Associate Dean of the School of Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>He came to HVCC with over 25 years of combined industrial and academic experience, having served as the technology manager for Mechanical Components &amp; Systems at GE Research in Niskayuna. Dr. Rodr\u00edguez\u2019 engineering leadership experience also includes Pratt &amp; Whitney, as the GTF LPC structures manager, and Infotech Aerospace Services (now Pratt &amp;\u00a0 Whitney, Puerto Rico). Infotech Aerospace Services was originally a Pratt &amp; Whitney joint venture and Dr. Rodr\u00edguez held positions as mechanical analysis manager, chief engineer, and general manager where he helped grow the site into a several hundred-person aerospace design team.<\/p>\n<p>On the academic side, Dr. Rodr\u00edguez has held leadership positions as the dean of Engineering at Universidad del Turabo (now Universidad Ana G. M\u00e9ndez) and the department head of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Since 2017, he has been a program evaluator for Mechanical Engineering programs under the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from University of Puerto Rico, his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is a licensed professional engineer in the State of New York.<\/p>\n<p>In service,<\/p>\n<p>Ainsley Thomas<br \/>\nChief Diversity Officer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:00:04 +0000 by\u00a0a.thomas1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dear campus community, The Latinx community has contributed greatly to the American experience and each year we celebrate National&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}