
2012 Winners

Best Conference Paper Award
Best Paper Award presented by IFT Board President, J. William Rymer to Satya Ponnaluri. Not pictured: Sabak Azimi-Sadjadi Intelligent Automation, Inc. Rockville, MD
“Quasi-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple-Access for Serial Streaming Telemetry”

Lawrence Rauch Award for Standards Sponsored by TSCC
Charles H. Jones, PhD, Edwards, AFB receives Rauch Award from TSCC Chair, Steve Nicolo (Edwards AFB)
“IRIG 106 Chapter 10 vs. iNET Packetization: Data Storage and Retrieval”

Myron Hiram Nichols Award for Telemetry Spectrum Sponsored by ICTS
Maria Araujo, Southwest Research Institute receives Nichols award from ITCS Chair, Mikel Ryan, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, MD. Southwest Research Institute
“PCM VS. NETWORKING: SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY WARS-A PRAGMATIC VIEW ”

First Place Graduate Student Paper
Javier Perez-Ramirez, NMSU, receives First Place Graduate Student Paper Award from Cliff Aggen, Student Paper Chair. New Mexico State University
“An Opportunistic Relaying Scheme for Optimal Communications and Source Localization”

Second Place Graduate Student Paper
Farzad Moazzami, Yacob Astatke (advisors) Nadim Maharjan, Paria Moazzemi, and Cliff Aggen, Student Paper Chair. Not shown: Faculty Advisors: Richard Dean. Morgan State University
“Telemetry Network Intrusion Detection System”

First Place Undergraduate Student Paper Award
Mark Hickle, MUS&T, receives First Place Undergraduate Student Paper Award from Cliff Aggen,Student Paper Chair To the left is Dr. Kurt Kosbar, Faculty Advisor, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO.
Not shown: Alexander Wilson, Joshua Kientzy and Mathew Myers.
Missouri University of Science and Technology
“Design of a Semi-Autonomous Quadrotor Aircraft”

Second Place Undergraduate Student Paper
Dr. Michael Marcellin (advisor), UA, Robyn Mohr, Martin Vetazquez, Kathy Estrada, and Jon Austin receive Second Place Undergraduate Student Paper Award from Cliff Aggen, Student Paper Chair.
Not shown: Jared Fowler, Ruben Sanchez and advisor Kathleen Melde. University of Arizona
“Small Wearable Antenna for Animal Tracking”