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water pools, the SAUC-E teams were operating in salt water with limitedvisibility. If a vehicle failed, a diver had to search for the vehicle before it could be recovered. A new rule will be established for next year is indicative of the challeng- ing operating environment in the basin. ?To assist in the recovery of the vehicles in restricted underwater visibility each is to be fitted with astrobe light that will operate continu- ally.? The U.S. Navy?s Office of Naval Research sponsored the event. NATO nations have an interest in competitions such as this, which are designed to encourage qualified stu-dents to understand and pursuecareers in underwater technology and related applications while fostering innovation and technology. "All teams performed with impor- tant achievements that will help them to continue with their work in the future,? said Tielbuerger. news16MTRSeptember 2011Students from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh test their ?Nessie? AUV in the pool before placing it into the NURC basin for qualifying trials duringSAUC-E 2011.SAUC-E 2011 Results1stUniversity of Lübeck (4000euro) 2ndUniversity of Girona (3000euro) 3rdUniversity of Bremen (2000euro) 4thENSTA ? Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (1500 euro) Other Awards ? 1000 euros  Best use of Resources ? ESIA - Ecole Supérieure D?Informatique Electronique Automatique ?Ryujin ?Team  Experimentation ? University of West of England Teamwork ? University of Cambridge  Engineering Award ? University of Southampton and University ofBirmingham (Combined team) Co-operation Award ? Heriot ? Watt University (Edinburgh)  Perseverance and Tenacity award - ESIA - Ecole Supérieure D?Informatique Electronique Automatique Teams participating in SAUC-E ?11  University of Girona, Spain  Heriot-Watt University, UK  ENSTA Bretagne, France  DFKI Bremen, Germany  University of Southampton and University of Birmingham (Joint Team), UK  University of West England, UK  University of Lübeck, Germany  University of Cambridge, UK  ESIEA Paris (two separate teams entered), France About the Author Captain Edward Lundquist, USN (Ret.) is a principal science writer for MCR Federal LLC in Arlington, Virginia. The objectives of the competition were to:  Advance the state of the art of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles by challenging multi-disciplinary teams of students and engineers to perform an autonomous mis- sion in the underwater environment.  To foster ties between young engineers and the organisations involved in AUV technologies.  Create a suitable environment for interdisciplinary interactions between academic researchers.  To promote technical excellence in the field.  To attract research teams, schools and universities and to engage with them in order to help them to investigate and prepare for tomorrow's challenges.  During this event, contact between the university teams and companies invited toparticipate will be "strongly encouraged" and reinforced by the organization of the event to help create an effective synergy between the actors in the interest of the Office of Naval Research?to include ONR Global?and NATO. MTR#7 (1-17):MTR Layouts 8/29/2011 10:45 AM Page 16