
2019 Winners

Pioneer Award
Les Bordelon , IFT President presents the 2019 Pioneer Award to Michael Rice

Best Conference Paper
ITC 2019 Best Conference Paper Award – (l-r) Michael Rice, Bryan Redd, Earnie Broughton, Technical Program. Chair Presenter. Ximena Brice – not pictured, Brigham Young University
ON CARRIER FREQUENCY AND PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR CODED 16-APSK IN
AERONAUTICAL MOBILE TELEMETRY

Myron Hiram Nichols Award
Myron Hiram Nichols Telemetry Spectrum Award – (l-r) Michael Rice, Farah Arabian. Guy Williams ICTS
presenter.
POLARIZATION DIVERSITY AND EQUALIZATION OF FREQUENCY SELECTIVE CHANNELS IN
TELEMETRY ENVIRONMENT FOR 16APSK

Lawrence Rauch Award
Lawrence Rauch Telemetry Standards Paper Award – (l-r) Jakub Moskai, Jim Morgan, Ben Abbott. Steve Nicolo,TSCC, Presenter. Not Pictured Mitch Kokar, Austin Whittington.
VALIDATION PROTOCOL – THE MISSING PUZZLE PIECE

First Place Graduate Student Award
Graduate Student First Place, (l-r) Erik Perrins, Advisor, Jason Baxter , Author, and Cliff Aggen Student Paper. Chair, Presentor. University of Kansas
APSK SYMBOL TIMING AND CARRIER PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION ON AN FPGA IN
A C-BAND TELEMETRY RECEIVER

Second Place Graduate Student Award
Graduate Student Second Place, (l-r) Hua Lee, Advisor, Vincent Radzicki, co-author, Cliff Aggen Student Paper. Chair Presenter, Abhijit Rajagopal, Co-Author not pictured, University of California, Santa Barbara.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION ESTIMATION AND IMAGE FORMATION WITH ACTIVE ARRAYS

First Place Undergraduate Student Award
Undergraduate First Place. Kyle Norland, Cliff Aggen, Student Paper Chair, Presenter, Michael Marcellin, Advisor not pictured. University of Arizona
CONTROL FAILURES IN AN UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM AND THE POTENTIAL FOR STATELESS CONTROL

Second Place Undergraduate Student Award
Undergraduate Second Place (l-r) Bryan Redd, Jamison Ebert, Autumn Twitchell. Cliff Aggen Student Paper Chair. Presenter. Michael Rice Advisor not pictured. Brigham Young University
DFT-BASED FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATORS FOR 16-APSK