The James Dyson Award is an international design engineering competition that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. It’s open to current and recent design engineering students and is run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to get young people excited about design engineering.

The competition recognizes designers who think differently, to create products that work better. Engineers who follow an iterative design process. The judges – and James Dyson especially – are drawn to designs that employ clever yet simple engineering principles. If yours is a sustainable design, that’s even better. As well as proving your project’s technical viability, we’d also love to see that it’s commercially viable, too – so include any research you’ve done into manufacturing costs and retail prices.

What does Design Engineering Competition Winner get?

The James Dyson Award is your chance to make a name for yourself as an inventor. As well as winning a significant cash prize, you could generate media exposure to kick-start your career, earn the esteem of your peers. Perhaps you can gain the confidence to launch your own business.

The winner of National round will receive £2,000, while the international runner-up will receive £5,000. The winner of the global round will receive a large sum of £30,000.

Who can enter the international Engineering competition?

The James Dyson Award is open to current university students of engineering, product design, and industrial design. However, the engineers must have graduated in the last four years. Moreover, applicants will require to provide official documentation that proves it.

If you don’t want to work alone, or if you studied something else but have a brilliant idea you want to share, you can still enter as part of a team. Your team leader must have studied one of the qualifying subjects, and all team members must be (or have been within the last four years) enrolled for at least one semester in an undergraduate or graduate program.

Further, it doesn’t matter where you are from. Anyone may apply for the international Engineering Competition.

How to enter the Design Engineering Competition?

To enter the Design Engineering Competition, you must make online registration. The registration process requires you to upload the images of your CAD design or a video demonstrating your design.

Deadline

You may apply for the Design Engineering competition until 11 July 2019. Beyond the deadline, James Dyson Foundation will not consider candidates eligible for the international award.