Year 2 Competition

Overall Awards: Go to the teams that score the highest points in year two of the competition.

Overall Categories:

• First Place Overall Award
• Second Place Overall Award
• Third Place Overall Award
• Fourth Place Overall Award

Precision Power Award: Goes to the team that has the best module electrical performance testing. This module overall performs the best in metrics including average internal resistance per cell, lowest temperature rise under fast charge, constant current discharge and dynamic stress test power-profile testing.

Excellence in Module Integrity: Given to the team that has the best module inspection. This is a combination of the judges' evaluations and the inspection checklist results. Judges will evaluate the module design and build quality, students knowledge of the module design relating to the judges' questions and attention to detail in the areas such as geometric dimensioning and tolerancing and manufacturability.

Battery Disconnect Unit Integration and Performance Award: Goes to the team that demonstrates execution of the year-long design effort in developing the component. The winner shows judges an understanding of the tenants of the battery-disconnect unit's design that subsequently performs exceptionally well in the gambit of tests at the competition.

Project Management Assessment Center: Obeya Execution Award: Recognizes teams that effectively use Obeya to present their year two journey, highlighting key milestones, challenges and future plans. This award acknowledges clear communication, stakeholder engagement and thoughtful problem-solving.

Excellence in Hardware-in-the-Loop Innovation Award: Awards the team with the highest overall score for its demonstration of the the HIL bench competition event. The winner will have the judges' highest confidence in their HIL testing capabilities as it continues to integrate more features into the team's battery management systems software.

Distinction in HIL Innovation Award: Awards the team with the second highest overall score for its demonstration of the the HIL bench competition event.

Obeya Vision Award: Recognizes teams that effectively integrate the Obeya concept into their expo booths, demonstrating strong visual management, cross-functional collaboration and alignment with project goals. Award recognizes the team that's created a compelling and informative display, thoughtfully fostered a culture of safety and effectively communicated its project's progress; key learnings; and future direction.

Winter Workshop Technical Excellence Award: Recognizes the team with the highest combined score for all engineering presentations during the year two winter workshop, signifying great design progress and process development.

Winter Workshop Technical Distinction Award: Distinguishes the team with the second highest combined score for all engineering presentations during the year two winter workshop.

Winter Workshop Project Management Assessment Center Excellence Award: Goes to the student who achieves the highest overall score for best performance at this year's winter workshop PMAC. This BattChallenger's performance highlights their team's industrial strategy and teamwork modules.

Winter Workshop PMAC Distinction Award: Presented to the student who achieves the second highest overall score for best performance at this year's winter workshop PMAC.

Fall Workshop Collaborative Innovation Award: Given to the student who scores the highest on their Fall Workshop Collaboration presentation, effectively highlighting the partnership between the team's university and vocational school partners. Their performance demonstrates clear communication, strategic understanding and strong presentation skills.

Fall Workshop Technical Excellence Award: Goes to the team with the highest combined score from all year two fall workshop engineering presentations, signifying great design progress and process development.

Fall Workshop Technical Distinction Award: Recognizes the team with the second highest combined score from all year two fall workshop engineering presentations.

Expert in Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Award: Awards the team that scores the highest on the DFMEA deliverables and, in case of a tie, delivers the most completed and well-thought-out DFMEA matrix as well as provides helpful and thoughtful feedback to two other teams assigned to peer review.

Expert in RASIC Execution Award: Honors the student that embraces effective communication, problem-solving and collective decision-making to present the best programmatic solution to their battery-disconnect unit case study from the winter workshop's Project Management Assessment Center.

Expert in Change Control Award: Recognizes a student who demonstrates exceptional project management skills by designing the most effective and well-structured year two RASIC. Their ability to clearly define roles, streamline team collaboration and enhance accountability set a gold standard for project execution.

Expert in Change Control Award: Goes to the team that fully embraces the change-control process. This crew thoroughly documents engineering change proposals, collaborates effectively with the Change Control Board and Stellantis, and ensures timely approvals and sets a benchmark for process integrity and engineering discipline.

Technical Excellence in Creepage and Clearance Award: Distinguishes the team that's shown great detail in analyzing the opportunities for creepage and clearance to be applied in its design. Furthermore, this crew is able to develop a presentation strategy that eloquently details the abundance of information required for this deliverable.

Technical Excellence in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Award: This winning team showcases to the judges an ability to inspect existing components, develop build objectives and apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing principles to develop a custom part drawing.

Technical Excellence in Module Build Planning Award: Goes to the team with the highest score in the build book deliverable. The winning team will develop an assembly plan for the module, allowing crews to think through the purpose of each build action and define feasibility of the current design.

Technical Excellence in Cell Simulation Award: Recognizes the team with the highest score in this deliverable. Teams receive the opportunity to use AVL's Cruise M and Gamma Technologies' GT-SUITES software in order to efficiently characterize the cell. Using the sponsor-provided cell model, teams learned about the cell's Open Circuit Voltage and Ampere-hour capacity relationships as well as anode voltage potential relationships with temperature and State of Charge.

Expert in Statement of Work Precision Award: Honors a student for developing a well-structured statement of work that clearly outlines project expectations and responsibilities. Their ability to select a realistic subject, provide detailed instructions to all stakeholders and define an effective execution plan that demonstrates a strong understanding of industry practices.

Expert in Software Validation Award: Recognizes the team with the highest score on the Test Report — Software Functional Requirements deliverable, which showcases the best traceability for requirements and tests for some of their critical software features including isolation monitoring, high-voltage interlock, and crash detection, with comprehensive functionality and edge-case coverage.

Excellence in Module Disassembly Award: Goes to the team with the highest score on its recyclability standard-operating procedure and modeling tool check. The standard-operating procedure must include module inspection and preparation guidelines and guidelines for recycling non-cell components.

Virtuosos of Advanced Simulation Technology Award: The winning team will provide a video submission showcasing its proficient use of AVL's simulation tools including 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics, system simulation and/or co-simulation techniques. The winner showcases its efforts to judges through workshops, deliverables and office hours.

Multiphysics Simulation Award: Distinguishes the team that provides a video submission showcasing its proficient use of Multiphysics features with Gamma Technologies' GT-SUITES simulation software. The winner has shown its efforts to judges through workshops, deliverables and office hours.

Thermal Cooling Synergy Award: Honors up to two winning teams' video submissions demonstrating their collaboration to co-develop a cold plate design with another team.

Green Garage Blog Sponsor Spotlight Award: Showcases the team that's written the best sponsor spotlight Green Garage Blog submission. The winning team highlights its university and vocational students' interactions with an assigned BattChallenge sponsor's provided product, such as software, cells or hardware, or how it actively engaged with the sponsor.

Vocational Vision Award: Recognizes a vocational college's innovation in battery technology to advance its role in the Battery Workforce Challenge collegiate competition. This team will demonstrate experiential hands-on learning, collaboration with other BattChallenge team members and innovative efforts to improve vocational team member retention and recruitment.

Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award — University: Honors a university faculty advisor who has gone above and beyond in mentoring students, fostering leadership and integrating BattChallenge principles into their engineering and project management curriculum. Their dedication has enhanced student learning, strengthened interdisciplinary collaboration and elevated their team's ability to tackle the challenges of battery engineering.

Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award — Vocational: Honors a vocational faculty advisor who has been instrumental in facilitating the partnership between the vocational and university programs, ensuring vocational students actively engage and collaborate alongside university students. Their mentorship has empowered students within the BattChallenge program.

Best BattChallenge Collaboration Award: Distinguishes a vocational faculty advisor who has been instrumental in facilitating the partnership between vocational and university programs, ensuring vocational students actively engage and collaborate alongside university students. Their mentorship has empowered students within the BattChallenge program.

Spirit of the Challenge Award: Goes to the team that best embodies the spirit of the challenge, demonstrating enthusiasm, perseverance, and a positive attitude through the competition while overcoming obstacles and inspiring others.

Excellence in Leadership Award: Honors an individual or team that's shown exceptional leadership qualities, including vision, inspiration and the ability to motivate and guide the team towards achieving competition goals.

Outstanding Mini-Module Award: Goes to the team with the best video showcasing the introductory training mini module on a topic of the crew's choosing that's related to the knowledge gained in year two of the competition. Submissions are to be 15 minutes or less and must be applicable to any other BattChallenge team that watches them.

Top Performing LinkedIn Engagement Campaign Award: Recognizes the team with the highest engagement rate during the year two competition. To be considered in the running, teams must post each required daily prompt and meet the analytics submission deadline, as outlined in the guidelines.

Volta Foundation Women in Batteries Award: Distinguishes exceptional women who have demonstrated outstanding contributions within the Battery Workforce Challenge collegiate competition. This award honors individuals who not only excel in their technical and/or professional contributions but also uplift and empower women and allies in the battery industry.

Eaton Power Distribution Award: Recognizes the team that's demonstrated execution of the yearlong design effort in developing the battery-disconnect unit component. The winner will show exemplary efforts to the Eaton judges.

ABTC Design for Recyclability Award: Honors the team with the highest score on the relatively scored year-end competition presentation on design for recyclability deliverable.