Engineering Awards Quinfecta

[pmangels17]

I am proud to say that Team 271 is also in the Quintfecta Club! Our first award in each category are as follows:

GM Industrial Design - 2003 - SBPLI Long Island Regional
Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology - 2007 - SBPLI Regional
Rockwell Innovation in Control - 2008 - NYC Regional
Xerox Creativity - 2009 - NYC Regional
Delphi Engineering Excellence - 2010 - SBPLI Regional
Motorola Quality - 2014 - SBPLI Regional

It's an honor to be in a category with such great names in FIRST.

[Kevin Leonard]

Looks like 20 joined the club this past weekend with our Industrial Design Award at the Finger Lakes Regional!

Our awards:
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award (New England/CT Regionals '06, '07)
Quality Award (Boston Regional '08, WPI Regional '13, CT Regional '13)
Creativity Award (WPI Regional 2010)
Innovation in Control Award (Tech Valley Regional '14)
Industrial Design Award (Finger Lakes Regional '14)

[Aiyash]

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, I was surprised that you didn't win the Creativity award in 2012. I don't recall seeing another team that made something similar to 67's utility arm. Still my favorite bot off all time.

[ratdude747]

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.

It's not for a lack of creativity... IMHO, your 2008 drivetrain was pretty creative (as far as FRC bots go that is)... and that's the just the tip of the iceberg. Or say the hanger in 2010. Getting that to fit in such a small space probably took some creativity. And using a gas spring for an after-the-buzzer hang... A lot of teams certainly didn't think of that.

I'm not going to name names or point fingers, but IMHO, there have been bots that won creativity that weren't all that great... not "bad", but to the point where the creativity almost or sometimes did hamper performance. I've also seen winning bots that were very good performers (such as 469 in 2010). It's like patents... practicality and performance don't necessarily count, it's originality (which pretty much requires creativity) that is the criteria.

Good luck on getting the award in the future!

[Adam Freeman]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

It's not for a lack of creativity... IMHO, your 2008 drivetrain was pretty creative (as far as FRC bots go that is)... and that's the just the tip of the iceberg. Or say the hanger in 2010. Getting that to fit in such a small space probably took some creativity. And using a gas spring for an after-the-buzzer hang... A lot of teams certainly didn't think of that.

Thanks Larry!

Thinking about this further, I think the issue is more on own end. I believe our students talking with the judges are stressing the specific points of the design related to the Egineering Excellence, Industrial Design, Quality, Controls aspects...and not the Creativity side of the equation.

I might try to discuss this with our pit team to see if we can stress some of the more creative aspects of the robot to see if we can achieve the Creativity Award.

[Peter Matteson]

177 is only missing "Leadership in Controls"

We recieved the Delphi "Power to Simplify" award at the Championship in 1999 so you probably missed it.

This begs the question does anyone have the Championship Quinfecta?
We are 3/5 missing Leadership in Control" and Creativity.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

177 is only missing "Leadership in Controls"

We recieved the Delphi "Power to Simplify" award at the Championship in 1999 so you probably missed it.

This begs the question does anyone have the Championship Quinfecta?
We are 3/5 missing Leadership in Control" and Creativity.

When did 177 win Industrial Design at the Championship? Counting the Power to Simplify, I only see Power to Simplify in 1999 and Quality in 98.

As for championship:
233 is only missing Creativity at Championship.
33 is missing Creativity and Controls
1717 is missing Engineering Excellence and Industrial Design
2056 is missing Creativity and Industrial Design
126 is missing Engineering Excellence and Industrial Design

233 has the most Championship Engineering awards, at 5, 33 and 1717 have 4.

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

When did 177 win Industrial Design at the Championship? Counting the Power to Simplify, I only see Power to Simplify in 1999 and Quality in 98.

As for championship:
233 is only missing Creativity at Championship.
33 is missing Creativity and Controls
1717 is missing Engineering Excellence and Industrial Design
2056 is missing Creativity and Industrial Design
126 is missing Engineering Excellence and Industrial Design

233 has the most Championship Engineering awards, at 5, 33 and 1717 have 4.

Sorry, you're right I misread it in the table I was looking at. I was looking at a regional one from 2001.

[Jim Zondag]

33 has also won the Imagery Award twice at CMP.
I am not sure if any other team has won 6 judged awards at CMP.

One thing I will say about the Quinfecta, The Creativity and Controls award are often given to call attention to one unique robot feature or function. Industrial Design, Quality, and Engineering Excellence seem to be better indicator of overall awesomeness. These awards also correlate to high OPR, and are better indicators of greatness.

So while 67 has not won Creativity, it is probably because they always have lots of great things on their machine.

[Steven Donow]

125 looks to be missing quality.
Creativity (2010 Boston)
Engineering Excellence (2014 Rhode Island)
Industrial Design (2011 Boston, 2013 Pine Tree, 2014 Northeastern)
Innovation in Control (2011 Bayou)

Hopefully our robot won't spontaneously combust at Events 4 and 5 of the season.

[Bryce2471]

I'm exited to say that team 2471 won the industrial safety award and the innovation in control award at the Wilsonville district competition.
That adds us to the list!

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Jim Zondag

I am not sure if any other team has won 6 judged awards at CMP.

Depending on how you want to count Judged Awards, 233 and 365 have won 9. 67, 175, and 191 have won 7. 16, 33, 103, 111, 118, 126, 254, and 341 have won 6.

Besides the 5 engineering awards, 233 has won 2 Team spirit awards, as well as two honorable mentions for Autodesk awards.
365 has won 2 Chairman's award Finalist, 1 Chairman's award, 1 EI, 1 Entrepreneurship, 2 Imagery, 1 controls, 1 team spirit,
67 has won 2 Chairman's award finalist, 1 Chairman's award, 1 Industrial Design, 2 Controls, 1 Rookie All-Star
175 has won 3 Chairman's award finalist, 1 Chairman's award, 2 Gracious Professionalism, and 1 Best Offensive Round
191 has won 1 AutoDesk, 1 Chairman's Award Finalist, 2 Chairman's Award, 1 Gracious Professionalism, and 2 Team Spirit.

[Joe Troy]

[quote=Joe Ross;1366001]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.


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

Joe, thanks for the original post...

As of Week 5 2015, you can add Team 357, Royal Assault, to the "Engineering Awards Quinfecta".

We were extremely proud to have been the recipient of the Quality Award at the MAR Week 5 event held at the Upper Darby HS, this past weekend.

During the event, it was brought to my attention that I forgot to post a picture of our robot this year. I will post a picture shortly.

[EricLeifermann]

2826 is only missing the Innovation in Control award.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Steven Donow

125 looks to be missing quality.
Creativity (2010 Boston)
Engineering Excellence (2014 Rhode Island)
Industrial Design (2011 Boston, 2013 Pine Tree, 2014 Northeastern)
Innovation in Control (2011 Bayou)

Hopefully our robot won't spontaneously combust at Events 4 and 5 of the season.

Still waiting on that Quality Award... Since this post:

Back to Back Industrial Design Awards
Innovation in Controls Award

And a pair of Chairman's but who is counting those