Undergraduate Jared Hill competed against several Ph.D. students to win Best Student Paper at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control. Hill presented ""A Satisficing Approach to Free Flight,"" which he wrote with former undergraduate Ryan Johnson. Faculty advisors included Dr. James Archibald, Dr. Richard Frost, and Dr. Wynn Stirling. Hill and Johnson wrote and researched the paper with the help of a BYU mentoring environment grant.