Create the Future 2017 Design Contest, THE 2017 CONTEST IS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES! DEADLINE: JULY 01, 2017

Create the Future 2017 Design Contest, THE 2017 CONTEST IS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES! DEADLINE: JULY 01, 2017

The 15th annual “Create the Future” Design Contest is now open for submissions. Here’s your opportunity to put your Imagineering to work and wow the world. Create an innovative, new product idea that benefits society and the economy. Choose one of the seven categories for your entry. Good Luck! The world and all your esteemed engineering colleagues could be celebrating your name.

CATEGORIES

Electrical Engineering 

Tech & Engineering 

Entrepreneurship 

Other events 

Computer Sciences 

REGIONS

Global

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

The Contest opens for entries on March 1, 2017 and closes July 1, 2017 (referred to herein as the Contest Live Period). Entries must be received by 11:59 pm ET on July 1, 2017. For your entry to qualify for consideration, you must meet the following requirements:

• Complete the Official Entry Form and upload at least one image with your entry.
• Choose one of seven categories for your entry:
  • Aerospace & Defense -- Product innovations with applications in the aerospace, aviation, and/or defense markets.
  • Automotive/Transportation -- Products that enable movement of people and goods from one place to another.
  • Consumer Products -- Products that increase quality of life in the workplace, at home, during leisure time, or while traveling.
  • Electronics/Sensors/IoT -- Products that improve computing, communications, sensing, test, and other fields that rely on advances in electronic components, boards and systems; products that enable an interconnected world – the Internet of Things (IoT).
  • Machinery/Automation/Robotics -- Products that speed, improve, and/or automate work, manufacturing, and research & development (R&D).
  • Medical Products -- Products that improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare.
  • Sustainable Technologies -- Products that reduce dependence on non-renewable energy resources, as well as products designed for other purposes using environmentally friendly materials or manufacturing processes.
• Provide a description of your entry (up to 500 words) in the form of a technical abstract, in English. Your description should cover how the entry works, what makes it novel, how it would be produced, and where it would be applied. You will be judged on these criteria: 
  • Innovation (50% of score) -- What makes the design novel? Does it represent an important advance over current state of the art?
  • Manufacturability (25%) -- How easy would it be to implement? Can it be cost-effectively manufactured/produced?
  • Marketability (25%) -- Does the idea have practical applications? Is there a well-defined, significant market for its use?
• Upload at least one (but no more than three) visual illustrations. File type options: PDF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, EDRW. The visual illustration(s) should complement your entry description and can be drawings, photos, charts, or CAD images. 

Entries submitted without an illustration automatically will be disqualified, no exceptions. We cannot accept PowerPoint presentations, white papers, or other documents as illustrations. All descriptive text should be entered in the space provided on the Entry Form. Text on illustrations should be limited to captions or call outs.

ELIGIBILITIES

Open to everyone

DEADLINE: JULY 01, 2017

Get all the details at createthefuturecontest.com