Students Honored at ITS America's Annual Conference
WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2009 - The Intelligent Transportation
Society of America (ITS America) announced the winner of the 2009
Student Essay Competition during the opening session of its 2009
Annual Meeting & Exposition at the Gaylord National Hotel and
Convention Center, National Harbor, Md.
Brendan Morris, a student at the University of California San
Diego won for his essay, "VECTOR: Trajectory Analysis for Advanced
Highway Monitoring."
Second place honors went to Pengfei Li, a student of Virginia
Tech, and the University of California Berkeley's Lanjun Wang
placed third.
"The quality of these student essays is indicative of the
understanding for the need for intelligent transportation system
technologies and the caliber of our future researchers, developers,
and managers," said Steve Dellenback, PhD, Director, Southwest
Research Institute, sponsor of the essay competition. "Their depth
of knowledge is impressive. We congratulate them for their efforts
and achievements."
ITS America's Student Essay Competition was developed to
promote student interest and future participation in the
development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and
solutions.
Copies of the students' winning essays are available at http://www.itsa.org/amawards.html.
About Southwest Research Institute
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is an independent,
nonprofit applied research and development organization. The staff
of more than 3,300 specializes in the creation and transfer of
technology in engineering and the physical sciences. The Institute
occupies more than 1,200 acres in San Antonio, Texas, and provides
nearly 2 million square feet of laboratories, test facilities,
workshops and offices. SwRI's total revenue for fiscal year 2008
was $563 million. www.swri.org
About the ITS America
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America represents
more than 400 member organizations including public agencies,
private corporations, and academic institutions involved in the
research, development, and deployment of technologies that improve
safety,
increase mobility, and sustain the environment. www.itsa.org
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