General Guidelines:
Create a confluence page and link it here
Contact the person you’re working with over Slack
We will check-in every Mech Check-in to view progress, and assign more research in these areas as necessary.
If there’s already research or materials on the topic: Link in your Confluence page and explain them (do a little analysis).
Expectations/Responsibilities:
We want you to be able to learn something from your task so please pick something that is interesting to you! Otherwise we will assign tasks.
Please keep your pages are up to date!
Please ask questions if you’re not sure of anything! Always happy to answer
Let leads know (if you prefer privately) if you have stuff that comes up and need a break/cannot complete your task. We want to be able to accommodate everyone the best we can and also be able to learn together!
Don’t have a task?
Join our Mech Check-ins (Wed. @ 8:00 PM ET & Sat. @ 1:00 PM ET)
Volunteer for a new task, join a task, or we can assign one!
Research Tasks
Aero
Body Design
Problem/Unknown/Task | Goals & Subtasks | Individual(s) | Confluence Page(s) |
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Bullet Design Catamaran Design Comparisons | |||
What angle of bend can be designed for the solar array to be effective/not break? | |||
Theory and understanding: finding resources and General software tools (CFD, FEA, etc.) |
Panel Design
Problem/Unknown/Task | Goal | Individual(s) | Confluence Page |
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What are the types of canopy design? |
Problem/Unknown/Task | Goal | Individual(s) | Confluence Page |
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What are the limitations of each manufacturing method (wet layup, infusion, etc.)? | What are the limitations of each manufacturing method (wet layup, infusion, etc.)? | ||
How to manufacture complex curves? | |||
What are the methods of manufacturing canopies and see through panels (i.e. Thermoforming, etc.)? | |||
How do panel integrations work? I.e. connecting parts, potentially mounting parts? | Kimberly Liu - provide reference links | ||
How to make a mold for various methods (foam, fiberglass, MDF, aluminum etc.)? | Previous Pages: |
Problem/Unknown/Task | Goal | Individual(s) | Confluence Page |
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What are the areas of research for Dynamics?
| Suspension: https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/l/c/CZmtW0JM |
Problem/Unknown/Task | Goal | Individual(s) | Confluence Page |
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What are the advantages of various types of tubing for the chassis? | |||
What are the types of materials that can be used for the tubing? Price, applications, etc.? | |||
What type of designs are out there for chassis? | |||
What type of packaging constraints do we have? Occupancy cell, packaging dimensions, etc.? |