Design World’s Editor-in-Chief Rachael Pasini and Managing Editor Mike Santora presented the winners of the 2026 LEAP Awards on October 29, 2026, during an online broadcast.
Design World is thrilled to announce the 2026 LEAP Awards winners! LEAP stands for Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program and celebrates innovative engineering achievements in product and component design. Winners were unveiled in an online broadcast, which you can view on demand here: 2026 LEAP Awards — Winners Announcement. This year, we recognized innovations across eight categories:
- Advanced materials
- Connectivity
- Embedded computing
- Industrial automation
- Motion control
- Power electronics
- Software
- Test and measurement
These categories span four of our company’s engineering brands — Design World, Fluid Power World, EE World, and Engineering.com — and were selected by our independent, expert judging panel. For each category, judges could award Gold, Silver, or Bronze, but note that not all categories have all three medalists, and some have more than one winner for the same award, depending on the scoring.
See the winners of the 2026 LEAP Awards here!
