Enovos Prix d'Excellence 2023; Credit: Marc Lazzarini

The “Prize of Excellence” from the Fondation Enovos (Enovos Foundation) is awarded each year to young engineers rewarded for the quality of their Master’s work; on Friday 27 October 2023, the 12th edition of this awards ceremony took place.

Energy transition requires innovative and sustainable solutions and the development of skills in different areas is essential to meet current and future challenges. In this context, supporting engineering studies has been a particularly important element for the Enovos Foundation since its creation.

In 2010, the Enovos Foundation was created under the aegis of the Luxembourg Foundation; its contribution to research and its support of scientific projects was established as an important pillar. It is in this context and in order to promote the studies and professional careers of engineers that the “Prize of Excellence” was born in 2012. Since then, this distinction has been awarded each year by the Enovos Foundation and its partners, the association “Ingénieurs et Scientifiques du Luxembourg” and ANEIL (Association Nationale des Etudiants Ingénieurs Luxembourgeois). In more than ten years, 72 Master's projects for 73 winners have obtained this distinction, accompanied by a prize of €2,500 per application.

This year, an independent jury made up of engineers evaluated nine applications to reward the six best end-of-study projects.

The awards ceremony took place in the presence of Claude Seywert (CEO of Encevo SA), Marc Solvi (President of Engineers and Scientists of Luxembourg), Felix Rippinger (Secretary of ANEIL), as well as Michel Pundel (President of the jury).

The 2023 winners:

- Laurent Schüssler: Design of the binder jetting of gears made of 17-4PH taking into account the tooth root load capacity
- Anne Slunecko: Strategies and tipping points for individual and communal residential PV-battery systems in Luxembourg
- Thierry Treinen: Augmented Reality for quality inspection, assembly and remote assistance in manufacturing
- Christophe Vogel: Development of a Genetic Algorithm for Personal Rapid Transit Network Design under Demand Uncertainty
- Jenny Bourg: Investigations on shear load-bearing behaviour of carbon reinforced concrete beams using digital image correlation
- Pol Kails: Experimental and numerical studies on the load-bearing and composite behaviour of wood-steel hybrid beams under bending stress