2026 Writing and Design Competition: Engineering and Art

Engineering and art have much in common, and in fact engineers and artists go through a very similar process when designing. For this contest, we’d like you to use the engineering design process to create your submission.

From Watercolor to Website

Enter Your Work of Art

Your Info

First Name

Last Name

City

State

Title

Title of your Artwork

Your Statement

How does your artwork depict the contribution of engineers to a better world?

Describe how you think viewers from at least two different audiences might view or interpret your work.

Briefly describe the materials you used and the process you went through to create your piece.

Explain anything you learned from the process. Ideally include any failures you experienced along the way. Failure and subsequent improvement are critical to engineering design, so please tell us how you failed, how you dealt with it, and how that influenced your submission.

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