21st International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles

Judging Criteria for the 3rd International Collegiate Student Safety Technology Design Competition

Competition Objectives

The Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV) International Collegiate Student Safety Technology Design Competition consists of the following:

The student design must address a real-world vehicle safety problem from one of the following ten competition categories:

Student Team Competition

There are three competition regions: Because of the logistics involved and the difficulty in having a single regional coordinator for the 3 regions (Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America), a slightly different arrangement for coordination from previous years of the competition is being implemented. The European region will have a single coordinator. The North America region will have two coordinators, and the Asia-Pacific region will have three coordinators. The list of the coordinators and their addresses are given below:

Coordinator for Australia

Manny Stamatopoulos
Executive Director
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE),
Australasia
Suite 3, 21 Vale Street
North Melbourne, VIC, 3051
Phone: +613 9326 7166
Mobile: 040 326 7166
Fax: +613 9326 7244
Web site: www.sae-a.com.au
E-mail: manny@sae-a.com.au

Coordinator for Japan

Kazuro Iwata
Society of Automotive Engineering of Japan, Inc.
(JSAE) Group Leader: Professional Development & Publishing Group
10-2 Gobancho Chiyudaku
Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
E-mail: iwata-sstdc@jsae.or.jp

Coordinator for Republic of Korea

Younghan Youn, Ph.D
Professor
School of Mechatronics Engineering
Korea University of Technology and Education
307 Gajun-ri, Byungchun-myun
Cheonan, Chungnam, Korea, 330-708
Phone: +82-(0)41-560-1136
Fax: +82-(0)-41-560-1253
Mobile: +82-(0)16-428-4410
E-mail: yhyoun@kut.ac.kr

Coordinator for Europe

Dominique Cesari, INRETS
European Enhanced Vehicle-Safety Committee
24 Avenue Francois Mitterand
Bron Cedex, F-69675 France
Phone: 33-1-4721-42570
E-mail: Dominique.cesari@inrets.fr

Coordinator for the United States

Arthur Carter, NHTSA
ESV Student Competition Organizer
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.
Washington, DC 20590 USA
Phone: 202-366-5669
E-mail: Arthur.Carter@dot.gov

Judging

By December 1, 2008, the six competition coordinators will each select a panel of three judges to review the team entries from each of their respective regions or countries. On or before December 14, 2008, selected teams who will participate in the regional design evaluation will be notified by their Regional Coordinator. Based on your Region’s school calendar, a panel of judges will visit the selected teams’ universities to evaluate the developed safety concept and functional design model. The panel of judges may consist of both government and industry automotive safety experts who will select the finalists from their respective jurisdictions. From among the winners from each regional jurisdiction participating in the final competition at the ESV Conference in Stuttgart, Germany, international 1st place winner and runner up will be selected.

In Stuttgart, Germany, an international panel of nine judges will select a first-place winner and one runner-up. The international panel will consist of three judges from each geographical region (Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America). The six competition coordinators will select as international judges leaders in the field of automotive safety in their respective regions from both government and industry organizations who will be attending the 21st ESV Conference.

Important Dates

Entering the Competition

The entry must contain a title, competition category, and a 300-word (maximum) abstract.
The abstract must outline the vehicle safety problem being addressed by the countermeasure.
The abstract must clearly identify the device or system that the team will build to address the safety problem outlined. It must also explain briefly how adoption of such a device or system could reduce the number of crashes, mitigate injuries, and/or prevent fatalities and injuries if deployed in vehicles and put into real-world operation in the fleet.
Entries should include projected development costs of a life size or functional scale-model.
To be considered, the entry must be submitted electronically via the ESV Web site by December 1, 2008.

Overall Scoring Criteria for Regional and Inernation Competition

Scoring Criteria for Abstracts:
Potential impact on safety problem being addressed	30 points
Originality	25 points
Practicability of creating a functional scale model	25 points
Supporting details, quality, technical depth	20 points
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	100 points

Status of Abstract Submission

Regional Competition Coordinators will notify all teams in their respective regions whether their abstract was accepted or not accepted to continue in the next phase of the competition for regional finalists.

Scoring Criteria for Regional Finalists:

Judging of each team’s project, including their functional models and reports, will take place at each team’s respective college or university no later than April 3, 2009.

Judges will view a presentation of the functional models and review the written reports. The following criteria, for both the regional and final competitions, will be considered, and judges will award points based on the following:

Scoring Criteria for Abstracts:
Potential impact on safety problem being addressed Did the team address a safety problem? How did the team test and evaluate its system? What metrics did the team use? What are the results of the testing? Are conclusions presented clearly? What potential or expected effects will the system have on traffic safety? Is the system practicable?	40 points
Originality	20 points
Functional scale model, physical presentation	20 points
Oral Presentation	20 points
Supporting details, quality, thoroughness, technical depth, and functionality	10 points
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	100 points

Team reports must be submitted in English and no more than 3,000 words (approximately six pages) in length.

Students are encouraged to include the following in their report:

Estimated safety benefits in terms of lives saved or crashes prevented and the method by which the estimate was developed.
The percentage of the passenger fleet covered and the percentage of the problem being addressed by the proposed countermeasures.
The cost/benefit relationship for the system if it were produced and in-use fleet wide.
Teams shall include in their written report a breakout of the funds expended during the competition to include the equivalent of 2,000 euros awarded by its respective ESV regions to offset the costs involved in its design efforts as well as the 3,000 euros from their region, corporate sponsorship, and any other funds obtained from their university.

Based on the competition criteria, a maximum of three teams per region will be invited to compete in the final competition at the 21st ESV Conference in Stuttgart, Germany. Teams will be notified of the judging results on or before April 3, 2009.

International Competition

Final judging for this competition will take place during the 21st ESV Conference, June 15-18, 2009, in Stuttgart, Germany.

The nine finalist teams will be required to present a 15-minute oral PowerPoint presentation during a special technical session for students at the conference. Each team’s presentation should be a stand-alone detailed description that clearly shows the team’s knowledge of the subject, the data they may have collected and their analysis if any, and should give the judges a positive overall impression.

During the exhibition the international panel of judges will evaluate each team’s entry. Each team will have 10-minutes (maximum) to present and demonstrate the functional model. The same criterion that was used to judge the regional competition will be used to judge the finalists.

Winning teams will be presented with a plaque by a representative from the U.S. Department of Transportation / NHTSA and a representative from the 21st ESV Conference Organizing Committee in Germany.

Financial Assistance and Corporate Sponsorship

Based on the competition criteria, a maximum of six teams will be invited to participate in their regional competitions. Each team will be awarded the equivalent of 2,000 euros by its respective ESV region to help offset the costs involved in its design efforts.

Teams are encouraged to seek corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsorship, to include funds to offset the costs of the design efforts is limited to the equivalent of 3,000 euros per team, but corporate sponsorship is not a requirement. Total project costs must not exceed the equivalent of 5,000 euros funding ceiling that includes any contributions from sponsors. The nine international finalist teams are permitted to seek additional funding beyond the 3,000 euros to offset travel costs to and from the conference. Conference registration fees will be waived for a maximum of two team members from each of the nine international finalists.

ESV Conference Week Student Schedule

Monday June 15, 2009	8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.	Teams set up displays in exhibition area and have their photographs taken.
Monday June 15, 2009	10 a.m. – 5 p.m.	Finalists are encouraged to have team members available to demonstrate functional scale models
Tuesday June 16, 2009	9 a.m. – 6 p.m.	AM: Judges and others will attend student special technical session for students and listen to 15 minute oral presentations. PM: Judges will all congregate in the exhibition area for final judging and demonstration of functional scale models. Finalists must be present and each team will have 10 minutes to present and demonstrate functional scale models.
Wednesday June 17, 2009	9 a.m. – 5 p.m.	Student displays must remain in the exhibition area; however, students are not required to be present.
Thursday June 18, 2009	1 p.m.	All students and teams must be present. International winner and runner-up recognized at the ESV closing ceremony.

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