Let’s see how engineering “shows up” at DTE to celebrate National Engineers Week

Celebrated annually, National Engineers Week reaffirms the commitment of engineers to making a difference in the work they lead in their roles at organizations across the country.

This year’s theme, “Welcome to the Future,” points to how engineering is tackling today’s global challenges – transitioning to clean energy and improving infrastructure – of which DTE Energy and our teams of engineers are working toward.

Let’s meet four DTE team members applying their engineering abilities in service to Michigan’s communities and businesses:

Arvind S., Customer Strategy manager

“My engineering background in electronics and mobile communications equipped me effectively implement cloud-based solutions to manage mobile device based meter reading.

Together with our vendor partners and internal teams, DTE’s metering contract teams’ day-to-day work is based on real-time data, which ensures reading and billing accuracy for our customers and businesses across Michigan.”

Biljana P., DTE Electric Plant manager

“I began my engineering career at one of our power plants where I saw how the application of engineering principles could address real-world challenges.

Today, I am a plant manager and together with a team of engineers, specialists, technicians, and project managers, we apply our collective expertise and perspectives to deliver sustainable, clean energy solutions to our Michigan customers and communities.”

Siraj M., manager, Gas Operations

“By combining engineering thinking with state-of-the-art technology solutions, we have digitized many of our field teams’ processes.

This means our field leaders and crews are working safer, smarter, and more efficiently to deliver service excellence to the customers and businesses across our Michigan communities.”

Victoria W., principal engineer, Automation Operations

“Since joining DTE in 2017, I have applied my engineering knowledge in roles focused on improving customer reliability, readying our grid to support electric vehicle adoption and increasing the accuracy of our distribution system data.”

Today, I am proud to take that knowledge as part of a team of engineers, project managers and overhead field general supervisors who are automating our distribution system, which will reduce the duration of outages and improve energy reliability for our customers.”