University of Lübeck wins SAUC-Europe '11

University of Lübeck from Germany, triumphed over 9 other teams to win the 6th Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge Europe (SAUC-E). The team's AUV ‘Hanse' got the highest score successfully completing a number of mission tasks assigned. The 2nd prize went to University of Girona (2010 Champions) from Spain with its AUV ‘Sparus', while DFKI Bremen from Germany took home the 3rd prize, closely followed by ENSTA Bretagne (4th).

 

Heriot-Watt University entered the final phase and got the Cooperation Award.

The other participating teams were from University of Southampton and University of Birmingham, a joint team that won the ‘Engineering Award', the University of West England, laying their hands on the the ‘Experimentation Award', ESIEA Paris (two teams) receiving the ‘Perseverance & tenacity Award' and ‘Best Use of Resources Award' and Cambridge University taking the ‘Teamwork Award' home.

 

An international jury of experts awarded the three teams that built the most efficient, reliable and compelling vehicles and that stood out for technical merit, craftsmanship, safety of design, marketing and fund-raising efforts.

 

The winners' prizes for the first four seeded are 4,000, 3,000, 2,000, 1,500 Euros to be used by the team to improve their equipment for future competitions. All the other teams received 1,000 Euros each to encourage their work.

"As every competition, also SAUC-E '11 was a challenge for all participants", says Dirk Tielbuerger, director of NURC, during the award ceremony. "All teams performed with important achievements that will help them to continue with their work in the future. Overall the whole event was a great success".