It was rather ironic because the artwork had been a large sculpture of a toaster created to look like burnt toast. (I can't sense what you're feeling at this point, Anger? Sadness? Add more of YOU into this part so we can see your reaction)
I could have The appearance of the back was not a problem since wings covered it. (It's great how you're going into the details of the project but I feel that by the end of the paragraph you are drifting from your point, might want to shorten and condense this paragraph and add more in the last paragraph about the actual intellectual development)
It was also an opportunity to be innovative and creative, traits I hope to use as an engineer. (I feel you can add much more explanation to this portion of the essay, exactly HOW did it do these things)
One issue i'm getting here, atleast for me, is that, how did the main event of your project being incinerated cause you to be creative? Were you referring to the flipping of the mannequin? if so, atleast it crossed my mind, wouldn't you have to do that anyways even if your project didn't get incinerated? If that is the case then it might be that your entire art course is your main event and i'm getting at this wrong. I'm not sure, that wasn't as clear as it should be i think.