2024 Contest Now Accepting Entries!

Submit your best new product ideas for a chance at $25,000, other great prizes, and global recognition. If you already are registered, log in to access the entry form. Otherwise, click here to get started.

Help build a better tomorrow

Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 design ideas have been submitted by engineers, students, and entrepreneurs across six continents. You can also join the innovators who dared to dream big and build a better tomorrow by entering this year’s contest.

Read About Past Winners’ Success Stories

Over the past 20 years, many innovators have used the recognition afforded by the contest to advance the development and marketing of their technologies. We highlight some success stories of past winners who have brought their inventions to the marketplace.

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A ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’

Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.

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Thank you from our Sponsors

“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”

— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.

“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”

— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics

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2011 Contest Judges

Davide Borghi Technology Specialist Tetra Pak
Stuart Brown Managing Principal Veryst Engineering, LLC
Paul S. Buccos Senior Engineer Varian Ion Implant
Paul O. Davis Senior Platform Engineer GE Home & Business Solutions
Tim Garner Technical Fellow Delphi
Parag Gupta Principal Engineer Stryker
Avkash Chauhan Senior Escalation Engineer Microsoft Corp.
Carl Gomes Senior Mechanical Team Leader Motorola
Kenneth Huening Vice President, Automotive and Military Maxim Integrated Products
Michael Jammal Program Manager Rockwell Automation
David Jorde Senior Development Design Engineer Solar Turbines, Inc.
Pierluigi La Montagna Industrial Designer -- EUR-ERG Technip Italy S.p.A
Paul Morgan Senior Engineer Micron Technology
James Lauer 6 Sigma Master Black Belt Caterpillar, Inc.
Anwei Liu Mechanical Engineer Newport Corp.
Kamlesh Pande Chief Consultant & Adjunct Professor Forbes Marshall & IIT Bombay
Paul Rebmann Team Manager, Mechanical R&D Nagravision S.A.
Ralf Reiser R&D Manager Mars, Inc.
Sriram Sambandamurthy Principal Systems Engineer MEDRAD, Inc.
Abraham Si Director, IC Design Maxim Integrated Products
C. Nils Smith Assistant Vice President Southwest Research Institute
Yogesh Soni Founder & CEO Mattozetta Technologies
Sailesh Tangirala Senior Analytical Engineer Ferno-Washington, Inc.
Vladimir Theodorof Engineer Specialist Caterpillar, Inc.
Rich White Mechanical R&D Engineer Agilent Technologies
Ray Yingling Director, External Alliances Eastman Kodak Company