CES keynote speech photos
About 18 months ago, Gayle Ermer, my department chair, asked if I would deliver a keynote speech at the 2026 Christian Engineering Conference, the biennial meeting of the Christian Engineering Society. I said “yes;” how could I say “no?” But like any good economist who discounts the value of future payments, I vastly underestimated the time needed to prepare the speech a year and a half in advance.
My brief was “say something of interest to the mathematical scientists (mathematicians, statisticians, data scientists, computer scientists) and the engineers who will be in the audience.”
The title of my talk was “Engineering: What are we doing?” I walked through how engineers are creative individuals who who solve problems for others using technical knowledge.
The speech was today, and I’m grateful it went well. I’ll post later with the contents of the talk. For now, here are a few photos.
