ORA announces awardees in annual design competition

July 28, 2005
July 28, 2005, Pasadena, CA--Optical Research Associates has selected the winners of its annual Student Optical Design Competition, in which awards totaling $4,000 are granted.

July 28, 2005, Pasadena, CA--Optical Research Associates has selected the winners of its annual Student Optical Design Competition, in which awards totaling $4,000 are granted. The annual awards are presented to students in North America working toward a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degree, who utilize the company's CODE V or LightTools software to perform research in some area of optical design or engineering.

The top prize winners were:
Imaging Optics for a Colonoscope
Erik Anderson
Ph.D., Stanford University
Using CODE V

and

Ultra-Thin Folded Imager
Eric Tremblay
Ph.D., University of California San Diego
Using CODE V

Other awardees included:
Design and Optimization of a Dynamic Focusing Microscope Objective
Supraja Murali
M.S., CREOL/College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida
Using CODE V

Optimization of Illumination Schemes in a Head-Mounted Display Integrated with Eye-tracker
Craig Pansing
M.S., College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Using CODE V and LightTools

Umbrella -- an LED Parking Lot Fixture
Chenlu Zhang
M.S., Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Using LightTools

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