London, United Kingdom – Mr. Umar Bhatti of the Centre for Transport Studies is one of this year’s Winners of the Student Research Paper competition of the US Institute of Navigation (ION).

This is a globally competitive and prestigious award that recognises the cutting-edge (novel) research that students conduct on positioning and navigation around the world. Umar’s award is for his paper submission entitled "An Improved Sensor Level Integrity Algorithm for GPS/INS Integrated System". In addition to a Certificate of achievement, the award covers registration and a full travel (and subsistence) sponsorship to this year’s annual international conference on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to be held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA in September 2006. Umar’s supervisor is Dr. Washington Ochieng who is delighted that Umar’s hard work has been recognised in this way.