Ron Brown was a Judge at the University of Maine’s Student Research Symposium held in Bangor on April 17, 2018. The symposium featured oral, poster, and demonstration presentations of undergraduate and graduate student research projects in all areas of study from the arts; to business; to the natural, physical, and social sciences; to medical, to engineering and information sciences; to education. Ron was a judge in the business and engineering areas. He was also responsible for the IEEE booth at the symposium where the IEEE was a symposium sponsor.