The Organizing Committee of the inaugural IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SuSTech) is pleased to announce that the Friday lunch keynote speaker will be Gordon Day, 2012 IEEE President, speaking on the topic “21st Century Engineering”.

In 2012 Gordon Day served as the 50th President of the IEEE.  He spent most of his career in research and management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he founded and led the NIST Optoelectronics Division. His personal research ranged from fundamental optical measurements to the development of standards for optical fiber and new concepts in instrumentation.  More recently, he has served as science adviser to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Director of Government Relations for the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association.  He has been a Professor Adjoint at the University of Colorado, a Professor Adjunct at the Colorado School of Mines, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK), and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney (Australia), and has served on many industry, government, and academic advisory groups.   He is a past President of the IEEE Photonics Society and of IEEE-USA, and is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, the Optical Society of America, the Institute of Physics (UK), and the Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK).  He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.