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Nominations for SENSOR Innovation Award 2009
AMA Association for Sensor Technology nominates three finalists for its SENSOR Innovation Award 2009
On occasion of its trade fair SENSOR+TEST, to be held May 26-28, 2009 in Nürnberg, Germany, AMA Association for Sensor Technology has announced its international competition for the SENSOR Innovation Award, which is endowed with 10,000 €.
“We had more submitted entries than ever before, and their quality was very high. This gave the jury a tough time reaching this year’s decision for the first round nominations to the Award” said jury chairman Prof. Andreas Schütze from Saarland University. A record of 63 innovations were submitted. “Over the last years, the proportion of non-German entries has stabilized at about one third. This turnout is quite pleasing. We congratulate the nominees for being picked.”
Intention of the SENSOR Innovation Award is to reward to the individual developers themselves rather than companies or institutes. Most important judgment criteria are degree of innovation and usefulness for applications.
After thorough deliberation, the jury decided on the following finalist contenders for the award:
1. Hamburg University of Technology: “PIMMS – Planar Integrated Micro Mass Spectrometer“
Team speaker: Prof. Jörg Müller
2. Owlstone Ltd., Cambridge, England: "MEMS Fabricated Programmable Chemical Sensor"
Team speaker: Billy Boyle
3. Siemens AG, Vertilas GmbH, Technische Universität München: "Compact and Calibrationless Carbonmonoxide Sensor with 2.3 µm Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL)". Team speakers: Rainer Strzoda, Andreas Hangauer
Prof. Roland Werthschützky from Technische Universität Darmstadt and chairman of the AMA Association science committee notes that “the submitted projects document an ongoing trend towards chemical gas sensing applications”.
The SENSOR Innovation Award 2009 will be bestowed by AMA Association for Sensor Technology during the opening ceremony of its trade fair, the SENSOR+TEST on May 26, 2009 in Nürnberg, Germany.
More information at http://www.ama-sensorik.de
Göttingen, February 26, 2009
