This year’s University Research Day took place on April 17th, 2024. School of Engineering students and faculty attended the event, presenting their research projects to members of the Catholic University community. This annual event highlights the research and innovation currently being conducted at the university and serves as a platform to celebrate the academic contributions regularly made by our students and faculty.
The event began with a welcome address from President Peter Kilpatrick in the Della Ratta Auditorium and an update on the State of Research at the university from Provost Aaron Dominguez. This was followed by a Keynote Seminar by Dr. Jeffrey Herrmann, the newly endowed St. Abbo of Fleury Chair of Engineering. Dr. Herrmann—who is an expert in modeling engineering design decision-making processes—discussed metareasoning, or the ability to think about the way that one thinks and makes decisions. His talk considered how faith and reason work together and how metareasoning might play a role in understanding the interrelation between them. He also explained the applications and implications of metareasoning in robotics, discussing how we program robots to perform metareasoning, so that they can recover from failures and use their limited computational resources more efficiently going forward.
The remainder of the day included several oral presentations, a poster ceremony, live musical performances and film festival, and the concluding award ceremony. A number of engineering students won overall university awards at this year's event.
Click here for the list of School of Engineering award winners.
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