By registering to the contest, the participant agrees on the following rules:

• All Bachelor and Master students inscribed at a Swiss university are eligible for registration.
• Bachelor and Master projects will be judged and awarded separately
• Submissions of team projects with more than one student are allowed.
• Application process: send an email to registration-casa@cadfem.ch with the following information
  • Name(s) of participant(s) (In case of a team work),
  • University,
  • Department,
  • Advisor name and email address,
  • Contact details: email, phone number,
  • Project title and abstract (meaningful description of the project and its objective, description of the planned approach).
• Submission process: Send your project report per email by February 29^th, 2024 to submission-casa@cadfem.ch. In case of restricted access due to an Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with an industry partner, please make sure to contact us early enough to resolve the situation (see NDA section below).
• Language: the project will be submitted and written in English, German or French.
• Competition schedule: All Bachelor and Master projects that start at the beginning of spring semester 2023 (28.02.2023) and finish latest at the end of autumn semester 2023/2024 (16.02.2024) are eligible for application to the contest. Projects must be submitted within this timeframe.
• Numerical simulation (e.g. Finite Element Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multibody Dynamics, Discrete Element Modeling, High Frequency/Low Frequency Electromagnetic Modeling, etc.) must be a significant part of the project.
• ANSYS tools must be used for the simulation part of the project.
• Prizes for each category, Bachelor and Master separately:
  • 1^st place: CHF 1500
  • 2^nd place: CHF 900
  • 3^rd place: CHF 600
• If a prize is awarded to a team, the prize money is given to the team as a whole and is to be split among the team members.
• The jury reserves the right to not award any or all prizes.
• NDA handling: please read NDA section of the page
• Assessment criteria of the work
  • Simulation is an important part of the work
  • Complexity and novelty of the work
  • Degree of innovation
  • Quality of presentation of work
  • Customary assessment criteria for academic pieces of work based on jury experience
• During the competition two community meetings will be organized (online or on premise, to be decided) where the participants can meet their peers and exchange ideas. Detailed schedule to follow.
• Promotion is mandatory: Participants will have to take part of the following marketing activies. mandatory. They will have to inform via LinkedIn their participation to the contest (one post at the beginning, announcing the registration, two posts during / at the end of the competition). Winners will have to do a LinkedIn post that gives details about their award and their project.
• Events participations are mandatory: The winning projects have to present at academic event(s) specifically organized by CADFEM as well as at the next Swiss CADFEM Simulation Conference(s) in Rapperswil (June) and or Lausanne (September). Expenses are covered by CADFEM. If the winning participants cannot attend, the jury reserves the right to award the prizes to another project.
• Contacts :
  • Application: registration-casa@cadfem.ch
  • Submission: submission-casa@cadfem.ch
  • Other topics, including NDA: contact-casa@cadfem.ch
  • Support emailing: support-casa@cadfem.ch
• Technical resources:
  • CADFEM youtube tutorials
  • Ansys Academic Learning Resources
  • Ansys Learning Forum
  • Free Ansys Learning Courses

• In case of an NDA with an industry partner of the project, there are three separate occasions which are important.
• During the community meetings, the students are responsible for not breaching their NDA terms.
• For the assessment of the work by the jury at the end of the contest, the jury needs to have access to the report of the project. They are seasoned veterans in terms of supervising student projects and working with industry partners and are happy to sign a separate NDA with the respective industry partner to facilitate judging of the work.
• The winning participants need to be able to present their work in front of a public audience in a reasonable way. Typically, it is possible to present excerpts without any product-specific or revealing data. The participants are required to openly communicate with their supervisor and industry partners during the contest in order to facilitate reasonable presentation of their work in public. The jury and organizer (CADFEM Suisse AG) of the contest are happy to support the participants in these matters.
• If you want to participate but are unsure about the NDA situation, please contact us at contact-casa@cadfem.ch to resolve the problem in cooperation with your supervisor and industry partner.

Send an email to registration-casa@cadfem.ch with the following information

• Name(s) of participant(s) (In case of a team project)
• University,
• Department,
• Advisor name
• Contact details: email, phone number
• Project title and abstract

Then, before February 29th 2024, send your project report by email to submission-casa@cadfem.ch.

Registration is free. Bachelor and Master are allowed to register free of charge.

All Bachelor and Master projects that started at the beginning of spring semester 2023 (28.02.2023) and end latest at the end of autumn semester 2023/2024 (26.02.2024) are eligible for submission to the contest.

Yes there are prizes for each category. Students are awarded for Bachelor and for Master projects separately:

• 1^st place: CHF 1500 Close
• 2^nd place: CHF 900
• 3^rd place: CHF 600

Promotion is mandatory: Participants will have to take part of the following marketing activies. mandatory. They will have to inform via LinkedIn their participation to the contest (one post at the beginning, announcing the registration, two posts during / at the end of the competition). Winners will have to do a LinkedIn post that gives details about their award and their project.

Events participations are mandatory: The winning projects have to present at academic event(s) specifically organized by CADFEM; And at the next Swiss CADFEM Simulation Conference(s) in Rapperswil (June) and or Lausanne (September). Expenses are covered by CADFEM. If the winning participants cannot attend, the jury reserves the right to award the prizes to another project.

If you don't have a LinkedIn account or you are not familiar with professional social networking, please ask CADFEM (Suisse) AG's marketing team for support, using contact-casa@cadfem.ch  - subject: LinkedIn support.

You can find some support resources using the following links:

• CADFEM youtube tutorials
• Ansys Academic Learning Resources
• Ansys Learning Forum
• Free Ansys Learning Courses

You can also use support-casa@cadfem.ch with the following information:

• Name,
• Phone number,
• Title project,
• Software used,
• Description of the problem.