BMW Group honours the next generation of international scientists: BMW Scientific Award 2001

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Munich (PROTEXT) - Under the central theme "Innovations fora mobile future," over 100 graduates of institutes of highereducation from more than 20 countries participated in BMW Group'sinternational research prize competition, the BMW ScientificAward 2001. As patron of this year's Scientific Award, Prof. Dr.-Ing.Joachim Milberg, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG,will award the prizes at the Technical University of Garching on12 July in Munich. The prize winners and their professorialtutors receive the awards under the motto "Ideas that move." As in past years, former prize winners and guests invited fromindustry, science, politics and the arts, as well asrepresentatives of the BMW Group will be on hand to participatein an exchange of ideas with the newly-awarded winners andcelebrate their "Innovations for a mobile future" in fittingstyle. "The Scientific Award not only honours the outstandingcommitment of up-and-coming scientists; it is also intended toincreasingly encourage young people in particular to take a deepinterest in the fascinating world of technology - because theyare the scientists of tomorrow, the people we will depend upon tosolve the challenges of the future," says Milberg. Since 1991, the BMW Scientific Award has been presented everytwo years in recognition of exceptional scientific achievementsby university and college graduates from around the world. Itstotal prize money, worth 70,000 euro, places it among the mostwell-funded international research prizes. The doctoral, diploma and master's papers submitted from theUSA, Australia, China, Russia and countries throughout Europe,among others, were evaluated by eminent jurors representingscience and industry. This year's winners were chosen from amongmore than 100 contributions covering subject areas as diverse asnatural sciences, the arts and architecture and design. Thethemes of the six prize-winning papers range from prognosticprocedures for recognising traffic bottlenecks to simulationmodels for airflow turbulence through to sensor-controlledwelding techniques. As an interdisciplinary research prize, the BMW ScientificAward has for ten years been a significant part of the ongoingdialog between the BMW Group and institutes of higher education -important partners in research and education. The prize-winning papers 2001: Dissertations 1. Prize: Bastien Caruelle - Institut National Polytechniquede

Toulouse 2. Prize: Isabelle Thomas - Université Catholique de Louvain 3. Prize: Henning Bork - TU Munich Diploma and master's theses 1. Prize: Roland Chrobok - University of Duisburg 2. Prize: Stephen Scott-Young - University of Melbourne 3. Prize: Jan-Dirk Reimers - RWTH Aachen Additional information is also available online from thearticle "Astute minds in the service of research" in the BMWScienceClub(http://195.30.248.72/scienceclub.nsf/e/44AD5EB5F93BF34CC1256A84002DE 4A5?OpenDocument).

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