DCE AUV Team leaves for San Diego, California for AUV Competition - 27 July 2008

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The members of the Delhi College of Engineering AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) team left for SanDiego, California. The Vehicle was christened VARUN.

VARUN represents a technological dream achieved by a team of DCE students for competing in the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition held by AUVSI in July 2007.

The team is composed of a group of undergraduate students headed by their faculty advisor. Ever since its inception, the team has been collaborating intensively with local, national and international resources. The team secured the 17th position in the International AUVSI competition held at SSC Transdec, San Diego in the year 2006. The second generation team is developing a completely new prototype, using  better technologies and hopes to fare much better this year.

Click here to go to the DCE AUV Website
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