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E-Week Banquet

Last Thursday Phil, Jeff, and I went to annual the Engineers Week Banquet. We had never been there before and since we're seniors, we decided for $7 we should go to it at least this once. We got to the Renaissance Hotel downtown around 6. There was a reception upstairs where we wandered around for a while, and Jeff and I talked to Meral and Tekin Ozsoyoglu for a while. The dinner was excellent, especially the spicy tomato soup and the raspberry cheesecake desert. The main course was chicken wrapped in ham along with rice, green beans, and carrots. The Keynote presenter was John Nottingham of Nottingham Spirk Design, a design company based here in University Circle. The title of the talk was "Relentless Innovation". The talk was very interesting and included a lot of examples of really cool products the company had designed, such as the twist and pour paint can, a swiveling Christmas tree stand, and an electric dish scrubber to name a few. As Jeff said the talk focused more on the company's innovations rather than how to innovate, which it would have been nice to hear his perspective on. Overall though, as I said, the talk was really interesting, and he also mentioned Steve Jobs, Apple, and Pixar when someone asked him who inspires him.