The O.R.C.A. Team

Who We Are

Project ORCA is an MIT student group interested in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) technology. Our main activity is constructing entries for the annual AUV competition. This competition, organized by Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), is designed to

... advance the state-of-the-art of AUVs by challenging a new generation of engineers to perform realistic missions in the remote underwater environment.

MIT won first place in the 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2004 competitions, came in second place in the 2000 competition, and fourth place in the 2003 competition.

Winnie Cheng Graduate Student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
	Sam Kenyon (Left) Industrial Partner
Jon Santiago Undergraduate Media Lab
	Albert Huang Graduate Student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ben Howell Class of 2006 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
	Jason Furtado Class of 2006 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seth Newburg Grauduate Student Mechanical Engineering
	Ara Knaian Graduate Student Mechanical Engineering
Jordan McRae Class of 2005 Aero/Astro
	Josh Apgar Graduate Student Biological Engineering
Jon Edelson Princeton, class of 1992 Chemistry "If it can be put together, I put it together."
	Dan Lovell Class of 2004 Electrical Engineering
David Greenspan Class of 2006 Physics
	Marissa Kirschbaum Bober Class of 2000 Mechanical/Ocean Engineering
Bob Altshuler Brown, class of 2001 Computer Science