Made a presentation to a very small audience at the Institute of Industrial Engineers Region 3 Student Conference today but enjoyed it. I retooled my engineering ethics talk for this audience and made is significantly shorter. The conference seemed to go well but it looked like many of the sessions were not very well attended with the possible exception of the talks given my potential employers. Can’t fault the students—I would not have been much interested in a talk on ethics on a Saturday morning either.

The highlight of the conference was getting to see a former student who I really liked when she is in school. I am pleased she is doing well. I also missed the keynote address by another student I knew, but did not know she was doing the keynote.

Tomorrow will be a quick trip to Jackson for the Mississippi Engineering Society Board of Directors meeting in the afternoon. A trip back home tomorrow night, followed with a presentation to the Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors on Monday. Then, I have another trip back to Jackson for the MES awards banquet where I get to present the MES Outstanding Engineering Student award to a remarkable student. I do dread the travel but I do look forward to the award presentation.

Somewhere in all of this, I have to find some time and figure out this dissertation thing.