While Mayor Jim Suttle was on campus to talk about engineering, 35 students had the opportunity to pick his brain for over an hour.

“As an engineer, I learned that going to the end of the problem first would give me a different viewpoint,” Suttle said. “Then by looking/going backward, I was able to find different ways of handling my initial problem.”

“Suttle made good parallels between business, engineering and politics. I can see how they all work together so well,” said Arts & Sciences senior Dan McGinnis.

Suttle discussed everything from his first election to ethics and business.

“Ethics are the rules that society follows,” Suttle said. “I am a very ethical person.”

Suttle was invited by the Creighton’s physics department and discussed how engineering, business and politics went hand-in-hand.In all, there were about 35 students and faculty members who made it out to see the mayor’s lecture Sept. 18, which went in-depth about not only ethics, but problem solving.

Students and faculty alike enjoyed when Suttle discussed knowing the rules of any situation that people are involved in and then deciding if they wanted to “play the game.”

“I feel that Suttle gave some really great advice in a business approach,” said Business junior David Dann. “I guess I can really agree with knowing the rules of any situation before you jump into it. You have to decide if the situation is correct before getting involved.”

Ending the discussion was a very quick question and answer session where Suttle explained how to raise money for science and scientific research, something that the physics department wanted to briefly bring up.

“In order to raise money for science there are two main steps,” Suttle said. ” First you have to always follow the high road. Then you have to know people who are in the ‘in’ and find out who they are.”