The Council of Engineering Graduate Students founded the Research Showcase as a way to highlight and reward the outstanding work of our graduate students, to promote engineering scholarship, professionalism and interdisciplinary research, and to introduce new graduate students into the culture of our graduate programs. The event is a day long focus on engineering research with accomplished outside speakers such as NASA's deputy director of Marshall Space Flight Center Todd May. The day is anchored by a graduate student poster competition with an awards dinner that evening.