Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition: Your Ideas Taking Shape
The Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition strives to challenge and empower the next generation of designers to think about how aluminum extrusions can shape a better, more sustainable world and continue to improve the quality of people's lives.
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) and its educational and research organization, the ET Foundation (ETF), are inviting students interested in product design, industrial design, design engineering, manufacturing, and other fields from around the world to share their vision for the future using aluminum extrusions.
The Entry Deadline for the 2025 Student Design Competition is March 24, 2025, and the student winners will be notified by email if their entry has won an award and will be announced in Spring, 2025.
The 2025 Student Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition Call for Entries has been announced. Review the 2025 Call for Entries Brochure and enter the competition!
ENTRY DEADLINE: March 24, 2025
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The Design Competition rewards creativity, innovation and ingenuity, improved process and product improvement. We want to see your unique ideas for aluminum profile applications in a variety of markets to help show the versatility of aluminum extrusions!
Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition 2024 Winners Announced
The winners of the Professional and Student Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition have been announced. Review the winning entries today!
The 2024 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition was open to student AND professional designers, engineers, architects and others.
Winning entries were displayed at the aluminum extrusion industry's premier technical education event, the Thirteenth International Aluminum Extrusion Technology Seminar & Exposition (ET '24), held April 30-May 2, 2024 in Orlando, Florida.