THE INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SECTION

Scholarship Program 

Scholarship FAQ

2006-2007 Scholarship Winner
Eric Vinande

Congratulations to Eric Vinande, winner of the 2006-2007 RMSION Scholarship competition.  Eric is graduate student in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  He has already had significant exposure to the art and science of navigation through his research work in the field of bistatic GPS validation of digital elevation profiles, GPS tracking in heavily attenuated signal conditions, effects of cross-polarization antennas used with a large number of correlators for multipath mitigation,  and sensor integration.

2004-2005 Scholarship Winner

Congratulations to Keric Hill, winner of the 2004-2005 RMS ION Scholarship competition.  Keric is a third year graduate student in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  He has already had significant exposure to the art and science of navigation through his work comparing the accuracy of Orbit Determination Toolkit software orbit solutions to the very precise scientific orbits of several satellites using GPS pseudorange data.  He is also exploring methods for relative and absolute navigation of satellite constellations using the unique characteristics in the vicinity of the Earth-Moon and Earth-Sun libration points together with satellite to satellite tracking. 

2003-2004 Scholarship Winner

Congratulations to Stephan Esterhuizen, winner of the 2003-2004 RMS ION Scholarship competition.  Stephan is a senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  He has already had some significant exposure to the art and science of navigation through his work in designing an avionics system for a small, unmanned aerial vehicle and in developing open source code for a GPS software receiver.  Once complete, this generic software receiver will be used to implement various types of carrier/code tracking loops, different integration times on the signal, etc.

The RMS section looks forward to interacting with Stephan as he fulfills his apprenticeship activities throughout the school year.

The committee received several outstanding applications from students across the Rocky Mountain region.  We encourage all applicants to apply again next year.