ABET-Lemelson award wrapup

Here are some final thoughts, photos, and links associated with the ABET and The Lemelson Foundation Engineering for One Planet Innovation in Sustainability Award ceremony and dinner.

Thoughts and photos

I’m grateful for my friend and colleague Jeremy VanAntwerp who nominated me for the award. We had a really nice time hanging out together throughout the weekend.

Here are some photos from the day of the award ceremony, Friday 24 October 2025.

On the exceptionally clear day, we took a walk around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Inner Harbor.

Jeremy had been a few times; I had never. He was a great tour guide!

We took the water taxi …

View of the Inner Harbor near the water taxi stand.

… walked to Federal Hill …

View of the Inner Harbor from Federal Hill.

… then to Oriole Park at Camden Yards …

Camden Yards.

… and the USS Constellation.

USS Constellation.

Lunch and breakfast the next morning were at Miss Shirley’s Cafe.

The ceremony and my speech went well.

Speech.

I received a nice memento.

Memento.

After dinner, we took a short walk along the Harbor to debrief and compare notes.

Walk after dinner.

I’m grateful to our hosts at ABET for their generosity and hospitality throughout the weekend. I’m thankful to the Lemelson Foundation for sponsoring the award and for partnering with ABET to highlight the importance of sustainability in engineering education.

Links

Finally, here are a few links:

• The nomination package. Hopefully it inspires others to incorporate sustainability into courses and curricula.
• The announcement.
• My thoughts upon winning.
• The tribute video that debuted during the award ceremony.
• My acceptance speech.
• The highlight reel of the award ceremony that includes a few shots of Jeremy and me.
• ABET’s article about the award ceremony.
• A video of award ceremony shows a humorous moment when I stumbled over my words during the acceptance speech (at about 38:35).
• A Calvin News and Stories feature about the award.