In 2014 Siemens launched its "Mobility IDEA (Improving Design and Engineering for All) Contest" to find innovations that would improve the world of mobility. Amir Ehsani Zonouz, a student at UMass Dartmouth won first place for his idea to use smart drone technology to find parking spaces.
Second place went to Sakib Khan, an ITE student member at Clemson University in South Carolina, who had an idea for a technology to keep pedestrians safe when crossing the road. Sasan Amini, a student at the Technical University of Munich, took third place with his idea to develop self-parking autonomous vehicles.
Read more at http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-student-earns-second-place-in-siemens-first-mobility-idea-contest/.