Sustainable Product
Production vehicle (or major system module) award that recognizes advancements in emissions reduction, lightweighting, and safety.
Great Minds Think Light: The Altair Enlighten Award
The automotive industry's only award dedicated to lightweighting and sustainability celebrates a decade of innovation.
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.
The Altair Enlighten Award is presented annually in conjunction with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR). This year's Award will be presented on August 2, 2022.
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Award Categories
Sustainable Process
Manufacturing award that recognizes advancements in material reuse, recycling, and water conservation.
Module Lightweighting
Recognizes vehicle module, subsystem, or component mass reduction.
Lightweighting Enabling Technology
Recognizes technology advancements that enable vehicle lightweighting, including a material, production process, design method, or joining technology.
Future of Lightweighting
Recognizes materials or technologies that are not yet in production, but have significant potential to advance vehicle lightweighting.
2021 Altair Enlighten Award Winners
Every organization that wins the Enlighten Award joins a distinguished, trailblazing club. Last year’s winners – Ford, Magna International, Faurecia, ArcelorMittal, Jeep (Stellantis, BASF, and L&L Products), and American Axle & Manufacturing – are the latest organizations to showcase the future of vehicle lightweighting and sustainability.
You can see a complete list of previous winners here
Submit your entry today for a chance to win.
Download 2022 Entry FormPast Participants
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 -
Our Partners
Highlighting the organizations who make the Enlighten Award possible.
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Our 2021 Judges
Judging is conducted by an independent panel of judges, led by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR). CAR will chair the group of recognized industry experts to select the winning entries in all the categories.
Carla Bailo
Center of Automotive Research (CAR)
Harvey Bell
University of Michigan
Josh Brugeman
Fresh Coast Climate Solutions
Brian Daugherty
Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association
Ryan Gehm
Truck & Off-Highway
Engineering Magazine
SAE International
Thomas Günnel
Vogel Communications
Gary Latham
Pratt & Miller Engineering
Dr. Deborah Mielewski
Ford
Tony Norton
Altair
Gina Oliver
Senior Director, ACC
George Panourgias
LIFT
Dr. Wolfgang Seeliger
Leichtbau BW GmbH
Chris Theodore
Theodore & Associates
Automotive Industry
Consulting
Dr. Frank Zhao
Tsinghua University