The Altair Enlighten Award honors the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements that successfully reduce carbon footprint, mitigate water and energy consumption, and leverage material reuse and recycling efforts. An award that garners interest from industry, engineering, policymakers, educators, students, and the public alike, the Enlighten Award showcases the latest and greatest technology innovations dedicated to sustainability.
This year’s Enlighten Award features a new category, “Sustainable Computing,” sponsored by Google Cloud. Named a Top 10 Sustainability Award by EVMagazine.com, the Enlighten Award is presented annually in conjunction with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), and will be presented this year on August 6, 2024.
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Recognizes implementing practices and technologies that prioritize precise measurement, optimizing resource and energy efficiency, unlocking new opportunities for low-carbon transition, and building more sustainable and eco-friendly computing.
Recognizes a production vehicle (or major system module) embracing emissions reduction, lightweighting, material circularity, and safety advances.
Recognizes processes that enable emissions reductions, material reuse and/or recycling, and water conservation during manufacturing or engineering phases.
Recognizes mass reduction of a vehicle module, subsystem, or component.
Recognizes technology advancements that enable vehicle lightweighting, including a material, production process, design method, or joining technology.
Recognizes a process, material, or technology not in production, but has significant potential to advance vehicle lightweighting.
Recognizes responsible AI deployment throughout the automotive value chain – from design, engineering, and operation to production and in-service use.
Every organization that wins the Enlighten Award joins a distinguished, trailblazing club. Last year's winners – Polestar, Nikola, ArcelorMittal, Volteras, Toyota, BASF Corp, US Farathane, Adient, Multimatic, and Marelli – are among the latest organizations to showcase the future of vehicle lightweighting, sustainability, and responsible AI.
You can see a complete list of previous winners here.
“Altair is very well known, and this is a very well known award. We are very excited about the business impact. When I looked at the competitors for it, there were some amazing technologies that were included as well, so we expect this will help spread the word for what we are doing.”
– Craig Renneker | VP, Driveline Product Engineering, AAM -
“Taking the Altair Enlighten Award in the full vehicle category for the Portofino BIW is a fantastic result for Ferrari.”
– Michael Leiters | CTO, Ferrari -
“The Enlighten Award is extremely important to Ford Motor Company. This award is going to strengthen us - it shows that we are really a player in this field.”
– Donna Dickson | Chief Program Engineer, Mustang Mach-E, Ford Motor Company -
“Our entire development team is honored to receive this coveted award.”
– JP Flaharty | Executive Program Manager at Toyota Motor North America Research & Development -
Highlighting the organizations who make the Enlighten Award possible.
Judging is conducted by an independent panel of judges led by CAR. CAR chairs the group of recognized industry experts to select each category’s winning entries.
Anant Agarwal
Nissan
Dr. Sarma S R Akella
Mahindra & Mahindra
Professor Harvey Bell
University of Michigan
Brian Brothers
Altair
Josh Brugeman
Fresh Coast Climate Solutions
Vanessa Eriksson
Zenseact
Ryan Gehm
SAE International
Sean Lang
Altair
Sanjiv Mantri
Tata Motors
Dr. Deborah Mielewski
Dione Solutions
Dr. Saravanan N
Ashok Leyland
Gina-Marie Oliver
American Chemistry Council
Dr. Seshanka Palukuri
Greenko Group
Dr. K. Venkatesh Prasad (Prasad)
Center for Automotive Research
Chris Theodore
Theodore & Associates
Dr. Frank Zhao
Tsinghua University
