Machine Intelligence Laboratory
2009 SubjuGator Sponsors (Sept 2008-Aug 2009)

A project like SubjuGator cannot happen on its own. We have been very fortunate to have generous partners in industry and at the University of Florida to support our SubjuGator project. Thank you for your support!

If you are interested in helping our team, please contact our faculty advisor, Dr. Eric M. Schwartz (ems@mil.ufl.edu).


Thanks to the generous financial support of Harris, the SubjuGator Project has continued to be a tremendous success. We are very thankful for Harris Corporations support of SubjuGator and MIL over the last several years. They continue to be the top employer of past MIL students.


The Gainesville section of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has once again been kind enough to help financially with our SubjuGator Project, as they have every year since 2002. Their continued support has helped to enable our students to become better electrical and computer engineers. We are very thankful for their support.


Lockheed Martin has again financially sponsored our SubjuGator Project. Their support, at a time that we really needed it, is greatly appreciated.


The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have continued to provide financial support for our project. A special thanks to Dr. Mark Law (ECE chair) and Dr. S. "Bala" Balachandar (MAE chair) for graciously continuing to help our team.


Thanks to Digi-Key for sponsoring our project with their wide-range of quality electronic components and superior service. Digi-Key has been our leading electronics parts supplier for the last several years and we are very proud to have them come aboard as a team sponsor in 2008.


Thanks to Altera for sponsoring our project with their FPGA devices and software products. Altera has been a great friend to the University of Florida and to Team SubjuGator for the last several years.


Fischer Connectors is our sponsor for sealed connectors. We are thankful for their continued support. The Fischer connectors we used for both last year's sub and this year's sub have been vital to our recent success.


Thanks to Dundas Data Visualization for their software support. The Dundas Gauge software was very useful for the development of our SubjuGator.


VideoRay has graciously sponsored us by giving us excellent prices on their thrusters. We needed more thrust and VideoRay's thrusters met are requirements perfectly.


Our official sponsor for anodization is Florida Anodize System & Technologies Inc., of Stanford, Florida. We appreciate their support


SolidWorks is our official sponsor 3-D Mechanical CAD Software. They graciously supplied us with student versions of their powerful software.



PNI makes outstanding 2 and 3-axis compass systems. They have generously provided support for the SubjuGator orientation and heading systems.


Advanced Circuits is our primary source for PCB's and has been very genereous with their famous student discount special and has also helped in other ways.



We are very thankful to OFab Inc. (in Ocala Florida) for there help with some metal fabrication.



We are very thankful to 4FX Design for their support and encouragement.



Other financial supporters include MIL members and alumni including:
Bob Pitzer, James Greco, Sean Cohen, Luis Vega, Patrick O'Malley, ...



  • We also want to thank our 2007-2008 SubjuGator project (Sept 2007-Aug 2008) sponsors.
  • We also want to thank our 2007 SubjuGator project (Sept 2006-Aug 2007) sponsors.
  • We also want to thank our 2006 SubjuGator project (Sept 2005-Aug 2006) sponsors.
  • We also want to thank our 2005 SubjuGator project (Sept 2004-Aug 2005) sponsors.
  • If you are interested in helping our team, please contact our faculty advisor, Dr. Eric M. Schwartz (ems@mil.ufl.edu).