The Written Proposal

Student Automotive Design Challenge

Competition Criteria

As a culminating event for the Honeywell/SAE Student Automotive Design Challenge, students will participate in a series of competitions that are based directly on their experiences in the SADC.
Each participating school will select one team to represent their class in a competition that will be judged on combination of:

·  The Written Proposal

·  The Oral Presentation

·  Vehicle’s Performance and Green Components

The panel of judges represented by Honeywell volunteers and school faculty will use the rating sheet to evaluate all the team’s presentation. An overall winner will then be selected which will represent the school in the global contest. The best team of the school will then have to submit by November 19, 2010 the following:
• Written Proposal - One page word document that has the following information:

·  City/Country/School

·  Team Members’ Names

·  Name of Company/ Logo

·  Description of Toy Design: (colors, materials, shape, etc.)

·  Explanation of how you used market research to develop the design of your car: (use provide overview of research findings and how your research influenced your car)
Ex: Found 90% of respondents preferred a pink car, so we incorporated the color pink into the car’s body style.

·  Vehicles Performance and Green Components: Description of the performance and what green options where used in the construction of the bodies for their motorized toy.

• Video Presentation - Video Time: Min. 2’- Max 5’ / Format: Quicktime or Windows Media/ File size: Under 90MB, Max video dimensions: 425 x 319

·  Content of video:
- Introduction of the design team members and their roles in the design process
- Describe how the team developed their design
- Demonstrate that the design meets at least one of the minimum performance standards and green components (listed below)

• Vehicle’s Photo - A creative picture that shows the vehicles performance in a setting that fits the vehicle’s purpose. Try to shoot an angle where the Honeywell logo shows File size: Min 300KB -Max 600KB
Please, make sure that the entries are neat, organized, and easy to read, hear and view.
Deliverables of each of the design teams
Below is more detailed criteria on the rating system that will be evaluated on the final presentations at schools.
Competition Criteria RATING
1. Written Proposal - Each written proposal [one-two page work document] should have as a minimum, the following items:

·  Overall description of the project

·  The design drawings and brief

·  The customer’s research: content and results

·  How the research’s results were interpreted and have been applied in the toy car

·  The biography of each member of the design team and description of their experience

2. Oral Presentations - Each team will be rated in their oral presentation taking into consideration the following:

·  The presentation took five minutes as maximum

·  The overall presentation [clarity, rhythm, team’s interaction]

·  The support material [Boards, etc.]

·  Arguments for why the company should use the team’s design

3. Vehicle Performance and Green Components -
Performance Standards:
A) Travel over a course of three meters from a standing start under its own power in three seconds or less, or
B) Climb a 30-degree slope from a standing start under its own power for a distance of at least one meter, or
C) Climb a 15-degree slope for one meter from a standing start under its own power in two seconds or less.
Green Components:
A) Students use recycled materials to construct the bodies for their motorized toy addressing the following points in their Green Design Report: Using non toxic, materials, nature- based materials (paper, cotton) vs. man-made (aluminum, nylon), minimize the number of different materials, materials used have existing recycling networks, use recycled materials
B) Students will design vehicles that can be easily disassembled for recycling or reusing the materials used to construct the vehicle bodies and describe the disassembly process in their Green Design Report. For instance, a body that has four parts to disassemble made of the same material would be superior to one that thad 10 parts to disassemble and there were multiple materials used. Additionally using glues to assemble the body would affect its ‘green’ score if one used water-based glues vs more toxic adhesives e.g. cyanoacrylate adhesives.
C) Students will design a vehicle that will perform a ‘green design’ function and describe the benefits of using their vehicle in their Green Design Report. Examples of this might include a recycling collection vehicle or a public transportation vehicle that would replace a number of individual vehicles.

·  Showed evidence that the design meets customers’ needs

·  Creativity of the design

·  Creative incorporation of the Honeywell logo in the design