Without the support and encouragement of the NCSU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, this club would simply not exist. The department has provided funding, lab space, advertising/recruiting opportunities, industry connections, faculty assistance, and access to tools. The neverending enthusiasm of the faculty and staff make this endeavour worthwhile. In particular, we would like to thank Tara Britt, Brenda Beatty, Elaine Hardin, Bart Greene, John Muth, and Doug Barlage.

The NCSU Engineering Council appropriated a generous amount to the club for the 2009 season.

Northrop Grumman donated close to $5000 to the club. In addition, we would like to thank Eric Pearson, Jared Ellis, and Ryan Tintner for their mentorship and support.

Lockheed Martin donated $2000 to the club.

Fischer Connectors provided a $1500 discount on their top-of-the-line underwater connectors for our 2009 season.

Seabotix provided discounted thrusters in the past, and have really helped us out this year with a couple of repairs at an affordable cost. We look forward to doing business with them in the future!

RootBSD Hosting has generously offered to host our code repository on their servers at no cost. The servers at RootBSD seem to be very fast and reliable- Our code is always there when we need it! RootBSD offers FreeBSD VPS for FTP, SVN, and other hosted services.

Digikey has continued to offer the URC a generous discount on their orders.

CadSoft, creators of the EAGLE PCB design suite, donated a full professional license to the club for their software. We now use EAGLE for all of our PCB needs.

Igus donated high-quality cabling several years in a row through their educational program!

 

Mecha, Inc. has machined several assemblies for Seawolf III at no cost to the club. Their shop has a collection of fully-automatic CNC machines and an intelligent staff to operate them.

Alibre generously provided our club with a full version of their 3D CAD software. Alibre is an affordable, fully-featured 3D-design package with superb animation rendering capabilities.

Harris Corporation donated a generous amount to the club.

 

CUI-Infinity donated high-quality DC/DC converters.

High-tech donated a set of custom hydrophones.

Advanced Circuits fabricated PCBs for free, and has offered free expedited shipping.

SolidWorks donated to the club and provided the students with free copies of its modeling software. Seawolf II was designed entirely with SolidWorks 2005. The new hull for Seawolf III was sketched using SolidWorks as well.

Teledyne Benthos donated a pinger for use in testing our acoustic nav system.

Microstrain provided a discounted inertial measurment unit (IMU).

 

MaxAmps provided discounted lithium-polymer batteries.

Wolfpack Motorsports allowed us to use their machine shop for fabricating parts.

Team Rolling Thunder donated a sheet of Lexan for our chassis.

Cisco donated $500 to the club.

The NCSU University Honors Program provided $2,000 towards the development of Seawolf II as part of an undergraduate research award.

The NCSU Student Government appropriated $2,200 to the club for the 2005-2006 school year.

 

 

Thanks to Dr. Steve Walsh and Dr. Tom Miller of the Engineering Entrepreneur's Program for allowing us to use their lab over summer 2006. A huge thanks to Coach Larry Brown and the lifeguards at the NCSU Carmichael Gym for help with pool testing. Thanks to University House Apartments for use of their pool after hours. Also, special thanks to Gail Lane at Fountain Powerboats for donating fiberglass materials, Chris Hei for his help fabricating the hulls, Ken Boone and the members of Triangle Amateur Robotics for all their advice and help with machining parts, Wolfpack Motorsports for the use of their machine shop, and Team Rolling Thunder for their help and materials donations. Thanks to all our sponsors who have generously donated or discounted parts and provided financial support and technical recommendations to the club. And finally, thanks to our friends/families/girlfriends/boyfriends/wives/fiances who have supported us through this challenging, sometimes stressful, but always rewarding, experience.