 We're really excited about this event, the Milwaukee Engineering Research Conference. Why we're here? It's for the collaboration. It's to learn what people are doing. I'm here to talk a little bit about some of the research work that's being done in cooperation with UWM and other universities around the country to help us at the Department of Transportation innovate in the way that we deliver transportation solutions. The main idea behind this conference was to bring the faculty, industry, and federal agencies together for them for a day or two to talk and talk about technical matters. The focus topics for the conference were energy and sustainability, water and environment, transportation and infrastructure, biomedical and health, and advanced manufacturing. The Milwaukee Institute is pleased to be a partner with the College of Engineering and Applied Science on behalf of connecting academic researchers and research with industrial problems. I'm delighted to be a part of the conference because I think the ecosystem that you're trying to create here for translating inventions from fundamental research into innovative startups and existing large companies are just perfectly aligned with what my division does and what I have interest in personally. Physicians are extremely busy. Physicians are also busy and they speak a completely different language. So a lot of what I do is matchmaking. I try to bring people together and motivate them to work on what we think are really important problems. You know, we've claimed all along this region is the center excellence for energy power control. Having the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee recognized as a tier one academic research just confirms what we've said. It's good to see that we have another university in Wisconsin that has the R1 designation. That just helps us to strengthen the core here to have more talent available, to have more researchers available to help us go forward. You have 34 research presentations in the conference and this event was a great event for the public, for the industry and for agencies to see the great research being conducted at UWM.