The 2010 Edible Car Contest

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 EDIBLE CAR CONTEST SURVEY - 2010    

Completed by 26 students of 59 participating or 44%

Major or career field

4 students or
15% engineering related

22 students or
85% not engineering

 

 

 

Gender

12 males or 46%

14 females or 54%

 

 

 
 

Yes

No

 

Engineering majors

Non Engineering

Engineering majors

Non Engineering

Did planning and building your car make you more aware of the creativity required to be an engineering technician?

3
75%
(of majors)

19
86%
(of non majors)

1
25%

3
14%

Did it increase your interest in any engineering related field?

3
75%

9
41%

1
25%

13
59%

Designing a car from food that actually rolls requires competence in technology, science and math. Were you surprised that you were able to build your car?

1

25%

12

55%

3

75%

10

45%

Are you aware that IVCC offers transfer programs in engineering and industrial engineering technology and two-year career degrees and in computer-aided engineering and design and certificates in computer-aided drafting?

4

100%

14

64%

 

0

7

32%*

1 No answer

 

Strongly agree

Agree

Unsure – no opinion

Disagree

Strongly disagree

 

Eng. major

Non Eng.

Eng. major

Non Eng.

Eng. major

Non Eng.

Eng. major

Non Eng.

Eng. major

Non Eng.

There are good career opportunities in engineering and engineering technology.

3

75%

12

55%

1

25%

10

45%

           

Engineering and engineering technology talent is in short supply in the U.S.

3

75%

5

23%

 

8

36%

 

9

41%

1

25%

     

What did you most like about building the car?

  • Creativity and problem solving
    The thought involved
    Coming up with ideas
    Eating the parts and laughing when we failed
    Designing the car
    Encountering problems and fixing them
    Brainstorming ideas
    Coming up with ideas
    Learning how to use team work to make it actually work
    Thinking up materials that would work well as car parts
    Being creative
    Extra credit
    Our first car failed, so we just made a lot of last second changes. So it was fun.
    Teamwork [also the most difficult part ]
    Extra credit
    Trial and error – rebuilding [also the most difficult part]
    Watching it work
    Different themes
    The design aspect [not an engineering major]
    It was fun to try different ideas and test them all out
  • The creativity
    • The competition
    • Teamwork and being creative
    • Eating its parts
    • Working with food

What was the most difficult part of building the car?

  • Nothing worked the way I thought
    Making the wheels
    Designing one with rollable wheels
    Getting food materials to not break or flatten
    Wheels
    Speed
    Determining which materials to use
    Finding axles and wheels
    Deciding which parts to use
    Creating wheels
    Finding a sturdy body and axles
    Building it / a lot of peanut butter
    Creating working wheels
    Making it roll straight
    Balance
    Finding working materials
    Trying not to break the already assembled pieces
    Actually getting the car to work
    Axles
    Balancing
  • Teamwork [also what they liked best]
    • Holding it together
      The axles
      Getting the car to roll
      Trial and error – rebuilding [also what they liked most]
      • The axle not snapping

Comments:

This is a fun and unique contest. I look forward to it next year.

Very very fun and competitive contest

I love IVCC