April 21, 2008
Bowling
Green, Ky. - Two students from Western Kentucky University’s Applied Physics Institute (API) traveled to Orlando March 16-20 for the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium (http://spie.org/defense-security.xml), the defense industry’s leading meeting.
Chris Davenport of Corbin and James Lodmell of Versailles joined API professors Dr. Alexander Barzilov and Dr. Phil Womble and applications engineer Lindsey Hopper.
They were given the chance to attend presentations from other students and also from top experts such as The Honorable Jay Cohen, Undersecretary of Science and Technology for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Dr. Delores M. Etter from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Different fields of science and engineering were represented at the conference. Scientists and students from many national and international schools also attended the symposium including MIT, Texas A&M, University of Kentucky, Michigan State University, University of Ottawa (Canada), Sabanci University (Turkey), Beihang University (China), and University of Canberra (Australia).
Davenport and Lodmell represented API for the session of Robotic and Mobile Sensor Technologies and Systems. They wrote a paper to show the research results that they have accomplished at API and also gave a presentation which helped to explain their work on semi-autonomous ground vehicles for defusing improvised explosive devices.
“The conference was a great networking experience for Chris and James because of the national attention it receives,” Hopper said.
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