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活動主題
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!
設計比賽獎勵創造力、創新和獨創性、改進的流程和產品改進。我們希望看到您對各種市場中鋁型材應用的獨特想法，以幫助展示鋁型材的多功能性！

參賽資格
High school, undergraduate, graduate, trade and vocational/technical and design school students are eligible to enter the competition. You must be enrolled in and attending school to enter.
Individual and team submissions will be accepted. Each student on the team must complete and submit an official entry form with the submission.
高中、本科生、研究生、貿易和職業/技術和設計學校的學生都有資格參加比賽。您必須註冊並就讀學校才能進入。

個人和團隊提交的作品都將被接受。團隊中的每個學生都必須填寫並提交正式參賽表並提交。

活動時程
All entries must be received in the ET Foundation office no later than Monday, March 24, 2025.
That doesn’t mean you can’t send your entry early! We understand that class schedules, Spring Break, mid-term exams, and other commitments can sometimes affect your participation in the competition. Just be sure your entry arrives NO LATER THAN March 24, 2025.
所有參賽作品必須在 2025 年 3 月 24 日星期一之前送達 ET 基金會辦公室。

這並不意味著您不能提前發送參賽作品！ 我們了解課程安排、春假、期中考和其他承諾有時會影響您參加比賽。 請確保您的參賽作品在 2025 年 3 月 24 日之前送達。

報名方式
To enter, design a product that incorporates at least one extruded aluminum profile (custom designs are preferred, however, product designs that incorporate standard shapes will also be considered). Be sure to review all the information in this “Call for Entries” for guidelines and tips on creating a potential winning design.
All entries must include a completed 2025 Official Student Design Competition Entry Form. Enter using the form in this brochure or download the official entry form at ETFdesign.org.
Entries may be mailed by post, or emailed to mail@ETFoundation.org. IMPORTANT! When mailing your entry materials, you must include in the body of the email a list of the items you are attaching to your message (for example: “I have attached a total of 3 files: entry form, design presentation file in PDF, link to video showing product prototype in use”).
要參賽，請設計一款包含至少一個擠壓鋁型材的產品（客製化設計是首選，但是，也將考慮包含標準形狀的產品設計）。 請務必查看此「參賽作品徵集」中的所有信息，以獲取有關創建潛在獲勝設計的指南和技巧。

所有參賽作品必須包含填寫完整的 2025 年官方學生設計競賽參賽表。 使用本手冊中的表格報名或在 ETFdesign.org 下載官方報名表。

參賽作品可以透過郵寄方式郵寄，或透過電子郵件發送至 mail@ETFoundation.org。重要的！郵寄參賽資料時，您必須在電子郵件正文中包含您要附加到郵件中的項目清單（例如：「我總共附加了 3 個文件：參賽表格、PDF 格式的設計簡報文件、連結顯示正在使用的產品原型的影片」）。

評審規範
To be eligible, you must be currently enrolled as a student in high school, college/university, technical or design college, or graduate school.
Designs must be original and use at least one extruded aluminum component. Multiple entries may be accepted. 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.
Winning entries will be those that best demonstrate the benefits of aluminum extrusions – whether by inventing a new product or improving an existing one, by achieving the following objectives:
1) Creativity – Innovative design, new or expanded application capability, methods to meet a new design challenge.
2) Practicality – Ease of fabrication and assembly, cost-effectiveness, integrated or multi-functionality, use of extruded aluminum over other materials and/or processes. 2024 Sustainable Design Challenge Winner – Strataponix Hydroponic Farming System, Soren Bruehler, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA INSTRUCTORS If you would like an AEC member to deliver a presentation detailing the aluminum extrusion process to your class, please contact AEC at mail@aec.org.
3) Product/Process Advantage – Product/process improvement: product design versatility or customization capability, improvement of extrusion processes, close tolerances, takes full advantage of extrusion’s abilities to improve a product.
4) Market Impact/Potential – Product design marketability, clearly identified product use(s) within the target market, and likelihood of market success
要符合資格，您目前必須是高中、學院/大學、技術或設計學院或研究生院的學生。

設計必須是原創的，並且至少使用一個擠壓鋁部件。可以接受多個參賽作品。如果評審認為任何類別的參賽作品均未充分符合競賽標準，則該類別將不會頒發獎項。

獲獎作品將是那些最能展現鋁型材優點的作品－無論是發明新產品或改良現有產品，並實現以下目標：

1) 創造力－創新設計、新的或擴展的應用能力、應對新設計挑戰的方法。

2) 實用性－易於製造和組裝、成本效益、整合或多功能、擠壓鋁的使用優於其他材料和/或製程。 2024 年永續設計挑戰賽得獎者 – Strataponix 水耕農業系統，美國西拉法葉普渡大學 Soren Bruehler 講師 如果您希望 AEC 成員向您的班級詳細介紹鋁擠製工藝，請透過 mail@aec 聯絡 AEC .org。

3) 產品/製程優勢－產品/製程改進：產品設計的多功能性或客製化能力、擠壓製程的改進、嚴格的公差、充分利用擠壓的能力來改進產品。

4) 市場影響/潛力－產品設計的適銷性、目標市場中明確的產品用途、市場成功的可能性
活動獎勵
Winning Designs will be selected by a panel of aluminum extrusion industry professionals who will judge entries based on the competition criteria as outlined in this brochure.
Winners will be announced in Spring 2025 and will be featured on AEC.org as well as promoted to design and trade press publications.
Students have a unique way of looking at the world, which makes them well-qualified to offer creative solutions to design challenges.
The Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition is intended to enlighten students about the many design advantages and infinite application possibilities of aluminum extrusions.
Enter your unique and original design in the 2025 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition. Show off your talent, ingenuity and creativity by designing components, systems, products, or product assemblies that feature aluminum extrusions. You may earn a scholarship award for your winning design!
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) and its educational and research organization, the ET Foundation, are inviting design and engineering students from around the world to share their vision for the future using aluminum extrusions.
Enter the Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition by March 24, 2025 to complete for the student scholarships totally $15,500! Scholarships will be presented as cash rewards to the best student aluminum extrusion designs submitted. The following awards will be available to the winning entries in the Student Class:
First Place ………………..$5,000
Second Place ………………$4,000
Third Place………………..$3,000
Sustainable Design Challenge ….$3,500
獲獎設計將由鋁擠型產業專業人士組成的小組選出，他們將根據本手冊中概述的競爭標準對參賽作品進行評判。

獲獎者將於 2025 年春季公佈，並將在 AEC.org 上進行專題報道，並推廣到設計和貿易媒體出版物。

學生有獨特的看待世界的方式，這使他們有資格為設計挑戰提供創造性的解決方案。

鋁型材設計競賽旨在讓學生了解鋁型材的眾多設計優勢和無限的應用可能性。

在 2025 年鋁擠型設計競賽中輸入您獨特的原創設計。 透過設計採用鋁型材的組件、系統、產品或產品組件來展示您的才華、獨創性和創造力。您的獲獎設計可能會獲得獎學金！

鋁擠型機委員會 (AEC) 及其教育和研究組織 ET 基金會正在邀請來自世界各地的設計和工程專業的學生分享他們對鋁擠型設備未來的願景。

在 2025 年 3 月 24 日之前參加鋁擠型設計競賽，即可獲得總計 15,500 美元的學生獎學金！獎學金將以現金獎勵的形式頒發給提交的最佳學生鋁擠型設計。學生組的獲獎作品將獲得以下獎項：

第一名………………….$5,000
第二名………………….$4,000
第三名………………….$3,000
永續設計挑戰 ….$3,500
聯絡方式
主辦單位：Aluminum Extruders Council
聯絡人：Aluminum Extruders Council
聯絡人信箱： mail@ETFoundation.org
聯絡電話：(847) 526-2010
比賽網站 : https://aec.org/design-competition