2024-09-28 Leads Meeting

Owned by Carmelli
Last updated: Sept 28, 2024
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  1. Electrical

    1. car drives yay

    2. AFEs fixed yay (BMS tested)

    3. new members yay

    4. fw: bootloader “is so back”

    5. fw: 5 people finished onboarding yay

    6. General HW Updates(Telemetry Board, PCS Board, future plans)

      1. PCS testing next week

      2. Solar testing to be planned

      3. Elec system meetings next week (check Discord for more details)

 

 

 

  1. Mechanical

 

 

  • Battery knowledge transfer meeting w/ @Shem Kim @Nicole Choe @Matthew Scorcia

    • Wednesday 7/8PM

  • Onboarding Update:

  • Finalize coordinate system by Saturday

  • Mech teams rough $$$ estimates for WEEF request by October 12

  • Discussion towards locking system architectures in dynamics and chassis

  • Exteriors:

    • Surface modelling 101 happened Monday,

    • Wants/needs linked in confluence

    • Design discussion this week

  • Internals:

    • Weldments 101 recording on confluence

    • Driver measurements (Limit at 5’9)

  • Battery:

    • Module replacement

    • October: Vehicle related tasks to begin

    • Thermal research and cell selection research in progress

    • ANSYS used for research for MS16

  • Dynamics:

    • Not much progress since work session cancelled (bc CAD 102)

    • Double A arm configuration confirmed

    • Ackerman steering used

    • Rack and minion(?)

  • Best practices documentation in progress

  • Bild organization in progress

  • Documentation: Design practices & Bild Organization

  • ANSYS update: Evan and Mido setting up ANSYS (license server) on bay computer

    • 30 licenses split among members

 

 

  1. Operations

    1. Will be looking over Dean’s funding and the WEEF proposal with members

      1. Looking to have these finished by mid-October, so please send in your funding requests!

      2. Please take a look at our current funding allocations for WEEF and lmk if you would like me to do any re-allocations (reminder that the funding expires 2 years after it was given): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V4yUz8EjZCB78KKeBZ5JefzUg3Ql7SdXDFFWxUmVhuE/edit?gid=1287898019#gid=1287898019

      3. In terms of criteria for dean’s funding, the following page has a good summary: Dean's Innovation Fund | Engineering, however I’ll be making a summary and have it finished by tonight, so you can just look out for that

  2. Other

  • New finance system in place

  • Weekly subteam TLDRs

    • Sentence or two for each subteam, each subteam

  • Concise communication is important, a lot of the times less is better. Try to avoid large paragraphs unless necessary

  • Comp learnings knowledge dump, filled out by mech subteams by certain date