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Visualization skill is an important skill that must be practiced by the students so that they can master the subject of Engineering Drawing. Students who face difficulties in solving Engineering Drawing problems due to weakness in visualization skills. Effective learning styles can influence the acquisition of information and knowledge as well as mastery of an individual's skills in the process of acquiring knowledge. Failure to understand engineering drawings well may be influences by inaccurate learning styles. The purpose of this study is to identify the visualization skills and learning style of students as well as the relationship between visualization skills and learning style practiced by Engineering Drawing students. The population of this study consists of household economics student who take engineering drawing course. This study is designing in quantitative form. The instrument that has been used in this study is questionnaire. The level visualization skills of student was tested using the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test of Rotation (PSVT:R) and Minnesota Paper Form Board Test (MPFBT). Both of these test can examine the level of visualization skills in two aspects which are mental rotation skills and mental merging skills. The Learning Style Questionnaire by Neil Flemming was used to determine learning style of students. T-test has been used to differentiate the level of visualization skills between the genders of students. Spearman correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between visualization skills and the learning style of students. The findings show that most of the students have a good level of visualization skills and do not have a significant difference between visualization skills and genders. Mean 7.91 has shown the most respondents are practicing visual learning style. The result also show that no significant relationship between the level of visualization skills and learning style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]