The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) organized a research showcase for Masters and Ph.D. students to present projects they are working on. The showcase was part of a bigger graduate student appreciation day event, followed by a party to celebrate graduate students. 

“Each department was tasked with doing some sort of appreciation for their graduate students, so this is what this showcase is for,” Khanh Nguyen, program coordinator for the ECE department, said. “[The showcase] is an opportunity for students who aren’t quite graduating but they are in the middle of their research, and it’s a way for them to show off what they’re doing.”

Participating students included electrical engineering Ph.D. students ​​Sergio Montufar, Suraj Bandela, Sthefanie Passo, Qi Xia and Bowen Ou. Parth Patel, an M.S. Computer Engineering major, also participated. 

First place was awarded to Montufar’s project, titled “Reinforcement Learning Control of an Autonomous wheel-legged biped robot,” while Xia won second place and Passo won third place. 

For more information about the Department, visit https://klesse.utsa.edu/electrical-computer/. 

View the full video covering the event on YouTube @ThePaisano.