Altair Enlighten Award is open for entries

Entry submissions are now open for Altair’s (Troy, Mich., U.S.) 2024 Altair Enlighten Award. Presented annually in conjunction with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR, Ann Arbor, Mich., U.S.), the award honors the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements that reduce carbon footprint, mitigate water and energy consumption, and leverage material reuse and recycling efforts.

“The Enlighten Award puts the automotive industry’s finest achievements in sustainable technology on display,” emphasizes James R. Scapa, founder and CEO, Altair. “As we continue to see the urgent need for greener, more sustainable global transportation technology, the Enlighten Award is the premier award that showcases the future of the automotive industry’s sustainability efforts.”

This year the Enlighten Award features a new category, “Sustainable Computing,” sponsored by Google Cloud, which recognizes implementing practices and technologies that prioritize sustainable measurement, optimizing resource and energy efficiency, unlocking new opportunities for low-carbon transition, and building more sustainable and eco-friendly computing. This year’s full category list is:

• Sustainable Product – Recognizes a production vehicle (or major system module) embracing emissions reduction, lightweighting, material circularity and safety advances.
• Sustainable Process – Recognizes processes that enable emissions reductions, material reuse and/or recycling and water conservation during manufacturing or engineering phases.
• Module Lightweighting – Recognizes mass reduction of a vehicle module, subsystem or component.
• Enabling Technology – Recognizes technology advancements that enable vehicle lightweighting, including a material, production process, design method or joining technology.
• Future of Lightweighting – Recognizes a process, material or technology not in production, but has significant potential to advance vehicle lightweighting.
• Responsible AI – Recognizes responsible AI deployment throughout the automotive value chain — from design, engineering and operation to production and in-service use.
• Sustainable Computing – Recognizes implementing practices and technologies that prioritize energy efficiency, renewable energy use, reducing environmental impact, and contributing to more sustainable and eco-friendly computing.

An award that garners interest from industry, engineering, policymakers, educators, students and the public alike, the Altair Enlighten Award showcases the latest and greatest technology innovations dedicated to sustainability. Past winners of the Enlighten Award include GM, Ford, Stellantis, Harley-Davidson, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Ferrari, JLR, Mercedes, BMW, SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) and many more (read “Altair announces winners of 10th annual Enlighten Award”).

Media partners for the 2024 Altair Enlighten Award include SAE, Automotive Engineering, Tech Briefs and Automobil Industrie.

To learn more about the Enlighten Award or to submit an entry, visit this link. Entries must be received by May 31, 2024. Final judging will occur in late June and the winners will be announced during an award ceremony on August 6, 2024 at the annual CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS).