2017 Issue

25 the final leg of his journey. The video shows the boat and crew awash in 40-foot seas and driven by hurricane force winds. Woven into these spell-binding stories, were lessons learned that have application even in the lives of less adventurous engineers. When Martin was a new engineer in the 1980’s, he worked in the defense industry. With a change in the presidency, and a reduction federal spending on defense contracts, he pivoted to Silcon Valley and be- gan work at a small start-up: Cisco. Both decisions followed a careful and correct reading of the changing economic seascape and timing his actions to catch the next wave, this and, he admits, a little luck. He also noted that there is no way to steer a ship before it begins to move, but, once underway and with some mo- mentum, a direction can be selected and a course charted. This same principle can be observed in life: while a journey may lead to success or failure, never leaving the safety of a harbor is the most perilous choice we can make. We want to thank our sponsors who donated to the Utah Engineers Council to help make the banquet possible. We are grateful for the many scholarship sponsors; the stu- dents you helped were an impressive group that will likely pay it forward during productive careers. We also wish to thank our member societies for their support of the Coun- cil and for finding such impressive nominees among their ranks. We are grateful to the more than 200 guests who purchased tickets and attended the banquet this year; we hope you felt well rewarded for the evening you spent with us. And we hope you will each join us at the Utah Engineers Council Awards Banquet next year as we again celebrate Engineer’s Week in 2018.