Aluminum Extruders Design Competition with $3,500 Prize from AEC

The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) is inviting students and professionals all over the world to participate in the Aluminum Extruders Design Competition. Individual designers and companies are eligible to enter the ET Foundation Design Competition.

About the Competition:-

• The Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition provides scholarship awards for top designs from students and cash awards for the extrusion application designs from professional product designers and engineers.
• Enter your unique and original designs in the 2022 International Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition. Show off your talent, ingenuity and creativity by designing components, systems, products or product assemblies that feature at least one extruded aluminum profile and highlight extrusion’s many advantages.

• $15,500 in Student Scholarships
• $8,000 in Professional Cash Awards
• One Grand Prize of $3,500 to be Awarded across all categories and classes.
• First Place cash awards are available for the best aluminum extrusion design in each of the four categories:
• Architectural/Structural: $2,000.
• Transportation: $2,000.
• Engineered/Industrial Products: $2,000.
• Alternative Energy: $2,000.

Competition Categories:-

Prizes may be awarded in the following four categories:

• Architectural/Structural: Versatile aluminum extruders enable sophisticated and expressive design features and labor-saving multi-functionality to be readily incorporated into building components, including:
• Modular building systems.
• Façades, curtain wall.
• Shading, ventilation and lighting louvers.
• Skylights, entryways, windows and doors.
• Office component systems.
• Walkways, bridges, decking and much more.
• Transportation: Design engineers focused on lightweighting, durability and strength increasingly are turning to aluminum extrusions to improve fuel economy, crash performance and load-carrying capacity for:
• Automotive.
• Rail and mass transit.
• Aerospace.
• Marine.
• Truck/trailer and recreational vehicles.
• Space vehicles.
• Engineered/Industrial Products: Aluminum extrusions are used in a variety of consumer and industrial components due to aluminum’s many material and process advantages. This category may include:
• Sporting and recreational equipment.
• Machine components and controls.
• Heatsinks and insulating components.
• Lighting and lighting components.
• Electrical and communications components.
• Appliances and more.
• Alternative Energy: Aluminum extrusions play a key role in both alternative and conventional energy generation and power distribution systems, including:
• Solar power systems/photovoltaics (PV).
• Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) modules.
• Wind power and turbines.
• Hydro-electric power and geothermal energy.

About AEC:-

The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) is an international association dedicated to helping manufacturers, engineers, architects, and others to discover why aluminum extrusion is the preferred material process for better products. AEC is focused on enhancing the ability of its members to meet the emerging demands of the market through knowledge sharing and best practices. AEC provides resources for members to continuously improve and excel in their profession, as well as expand their operations and promote the industry.

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