Engineering Awards Quinfecta

[Joe Ross]

At the LA regional this year, 330 won the Leadership in Control Award for the first time in team history. We've now won at least one of each of the 5 technical awards (Creativity, Engineering Excellence, Industrial Design, Leadership in Control, Quality) This made me want to look at how many other teams have won at least one of each. I used Team 358's award database

Through the end of the 2013 season, there are 35 teams that have completed the Engineering Awards Quinfecta.

Team	Creativ	Eng Exc	Ind Dsn	Control	Quality	Total	Year
33	3	5	7	4	4	23	2008
469	4	7	4	6	2	23	2008
111	4	4	3	6	5	22	2004
148	4	2	4	2	8	20	2009
190	6	4	2	6	2	20	2006
1114	3	3	9	2	3	20	2008
16	2	4	2	7	4	19	2002
71	3	4	7	1	3	18	2004
118	1	6	3	2	4	16	2007
293	4	3	3	2	2	14	2009
192	3	3	2	4	1	13	2008
343	5	1	5	1	1	13	2009
987	1	2	3	6	1	13	2007
1717	1	3	2	2	5	13	2012
494	1	1	1	4	5	12	2013
56	2	1	2	3	3	11	2008
69	3	3	1	2	2	11	2009
217	2	2	3	1	3	11	2011
1319	3	1	1	1	5	11	2012
126	1	1	1	2	5	10	2008
222	1	1	2	2	4	10	2012
230	3	1	2	2	2	10	2008
375	3	2	1	3	1	10	2007
548	1	4	1	1	3	10	2012
1983	1	4	1	2	2	10	2013
47	1	2	1	3	2	9	2004
980	3	1	1	2	2	9	2005
272	1	1	1	3	2	8	2008
358	1	3	1	2	1	8	2004
384	1	1	3	2	1	8	2007
973	1	1	2	2	2	8	2013
11	1	3	1	1	1	7	2013
378	1	2	1	1	1	6	2011
1726	1	1	1	1	1	5	2013
2046	1	1	1	1	1	5	2012

Team 16 was the first team with the quinfecta, winning Creativity in 96, Quality and Controls in 99, and Engineering Excellence and Industrial Design in 2002. 11, 973, and 1726 joined in 2013. Team 980 was the fastest to the Quinfecta, finishing it in their 4th year.

There are 88 teams who have won 4 of the awards through the end of the 2013 season. Here are the top teams and a listing of the award that hasn't been won.

Team	Total	Missing
67	31	Creativity
233	18	Creativity
2056	17	Creativity
330	16	Leadership In Control
25	13	Quality
868	13	Quality
610	12	Leadership In Control
1477	12	Creativity
1629	11	Industrial Design
1218	11	Leadership In Control
237	11	Creativity
141	10	Industrial Design
624	10	Creativity
357	10	Quality
365	10	Industrial Design

Has anyone else joined the quinfecta this year? Here's the complete list of everyone with 4 as of 2013.

20 25 34 40 45 48 64 67 68 70 88 93 108 121 125 133 141 157 159 171 175 176 188 195 233 234 237 263 271 279 288 294 302 303 308 329 330 339 357 365 383 435 456 476 484 604 610 624 639 648 696 701 842 854 868 870 1023 1024 1038 1086 1100 1126 1153 1218 1261 1403 1477 1507 1572 1574 1619 1625 1629 1690 1714 1771 1986 2054 2056 2122 2169 2230 2337 2471 2512 2612 2767 2959

[BHS_STopping]

Is the Excellence in Engineering Award equivalent to Delphi's other awards they offered in the past (Driving Tomorrow's Technology, for instance)?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by BHS_STopping

Is the Excellence in Engineering Award equivalent to Delphi's other awards they offered in the past (Driving Tomorrow's Technology, for instance)?

Yes. Here is the description from the 2002 manual of the Delphi Driving Tommorow's Technology award

“Driving Tomorrow’s Technology”
This award celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature. This award recognizes any aspect of engineering elegance including, but not limited to: design, wiring methods, material selection, programming techniques, and unique machine attributes. The criteria for this award are based on the team’s ability to concisely verbally describe, as well as demonstrate, this chosen machine feature.

Compared to 2014:

Excellence in Engineering Sponsored by Delphi
Celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature.

[mdiradoorian]

It looks like Team 696 is missing the creativity award. We still need to win that award to get the Quinfecta.

[stuart2054]

Hi Joe,

We got our first Industrial Design award at Gull Lake this year so by my research we have all five now but the one I am most proud of is the Engineering Excelence award we got in 2011 at Champs. The same year we met the BeachBots and were alliance partners in Archimedes.

Good Luck and I hope to see you guys in St Louis again!!

[kaliken]

Hey Joe,

Your friend Dave decided that we had to be on that list. So.. with my ancient memory and Dave's persistence we managed to find the trophies in our lab to make the quinfecta.

Until this year we were short a Quality award. So with that win, it looks like Team 294 gets to join the elite quinfecta list.

Awesome!

[Iaquinto.Joe]

308 joined the club this year! We won Engineering Excellence at Howell in Week 3 this year. Previously we won Creativity in '03 & '06, Imagery in '09, Industrial Design in '01, Leadership in Controls in '00 (x2) and '11, and Quality in '10 & '12.

[mwmac]

Joe,
Team Tators 2122 was honored to receive the Innovation in Control award at Utah in week 3, thus completing the quinfecta.

[Jay O'Donnell]

1058 got up to four of the 5 this year. We have won Innovation in Control, Creativity, Quality and Excellence in Engineering.

[Adam Freeman]

Team	Creativ	Eng Exc	Ind Dsn	Control	Quality	Total
67	    0	   7	  9	  9        6	   31

Apparently we aren't very "Creative". Can we get someone from 190 to advise us on creativity?

Never thought about the Engineering Awards Quinfecta, now I want to join the club.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Adam Freeman

Team	Creativ	Eng Exc	Ind Dsn	Control	Quality	Total
67	    0	   7	  9	  9        6	   31

Apparently we aren't very "Creative". Can we get someone from 190 to advise us on creativity?

Never thought about the Engineering Awards Quinfecta, now I want to join the club.

Adam, when most of us look at your robots, we aren't thinking, "How Creative!"

What we are thinking is more like, "Holy Crap!"

[johnr]

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Adam, when most of us look at your robots, we aren't thinking, "How Creative!"

 What we are thinking is more like, "Holy Crap!" 


Wonder what that trophy would look like?

[Grim Tuesday]

I like the idea of this being an annual thread! Looks like we still need to get creativity. It's a cool club to almost be a part of.

[stuart2054]

Originally Posted by johnr

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Adam, when most of us look at your robots, we aren't thinking, "How Creative!"

 What we are thinking is more like, "Holy Crap!" 


Wonder what that trophy would look like?

It would not be PC if I designed it, but I have had that feeling upon seeing some of the HOF team robots. Also frequently have "Why didn't we think of that" effect at events. I am a fan of "deceptively simple" designs which I believe are not so simple to engineer but make the most robust robots.

[Michael Corsetto]

Very cool thread Joe!

It looks like 1678 has joined the Quinfecta Club this year! With the Creativity Award at Inland Empire and the Engineering Excellence Award at Sacramento, we now have exactly one of each of the Engineering Awards Quinfecta!

Also, interesting point, each one of our 5 Engineering Awards is associated with one of our 5 Regional Wins in 1678's history.

frclinks.com/t/1678

-Mike