Students: Click here to view the competition overview, scholarship award information and more
Instructors: Incorporate the Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition into your curriculum
The Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition provides an excellent opportunity to teach your students design techniques while exposing them to the material advantages of aluminum and benefits of designing with extruded aluminum. Incorporating the Design Competition into your curriculum provides an excellent teaching opportunity while offering students a real-world experience in product design. And, the opportunity for students to earn scholarship money is always a strong motivator.
The competition is intended to enlighten students studying engineering, design, and architecture about the superior advantages of extruded aluminum profiles.
Aluminum’s favorable strength-to-weight ratios, the flexibility of numerous alloys, and the unsurpassed advantages of the extrusion process, including the ability to design to close tolerances, make aluminum extrusion the material process of choice.
Need to know more about the aluminum extrusion process and designing with aluminum extrusions? Here are some tools to get you started:
Overview of the aluminum extrusion process
Basic facts and key characteristics of aluminum
Comparisons of extruded aluminum versus competing materials
Features and benefits of extruded aluminum
Market sectors served by extruded aluminum
Finishes for extruded aluminum
Aluminum extrusion alloys
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Learn more about designing with aluminum extrusions
View and download a classroom presentation specifically created to help instructors and students understand the many advantages that designing with aluminum extrusions offers.
Instructors - use this presentation as a teaching tool in your classroom
Students - view this presentation to learn more about designing with aluminum extrusions
Design, Architecture, and Engineering Students:
Apply what you've learned about design and engineering by entering the International Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition. It's an excellent opportunity for a hands-on learning experience with the potential for professional recognition and earned scholarships. To help you get started, the ET Foundation has provided you will a wealth of technical resources on aluminum extrusion, found here. Not familiar with the aluminum extrusion process? Click here to view a short and simple simulation of the process.
Aluminum Extrusion Technical Resources
As you plan your design for the International Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition, here are some resources that will assist you with learning about the features and benefits of extruded aluminum, the process used to create them, as well as examples of other design examples using aluminum extrusions:
*The competition is not limited to the examples listed; these are just a few of the possible applications for aluminum profiles. Designs must be original and make use of at least one extruded aluminum component. Multiple entries may be entered. If any category yields no entries deemed by the judges to adequately address the competition’s criteria, a prize will not be awarded in that category.
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