2024-11-02 Leads Meeting

1. General

• Interest in attending IEF conference? Solar Car Conference (Online option and in person option)

• Fall Open House : Did we not sign up for volunteers? If anyone is going to be hear, let me(Aden) know so I can let Kelsey/Abby(faculty staff) know

• January 17-19 at Illinois State University

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  Open

  

• Coops?

  • Must be in 3A (ish)

  • Peter will send out email abt co-ops

2. Electrical

• Resume Reviews + 1 on 1s

• Firmware:

  • Assigned new member tickets for I2C, SPI, ADC and RTOS wrapper libraries for MS16

  • Debugged UART, still unsure if it is hardware or firmware issue.

  • Resuming battery test work, finalizing scripts and validating AFEs before charging pack for next weekend

• Hardware:

  • Everything is good

  • Buying pcbs in the next 12 days.

    • New controller board

    • Controller board breakout

    • IMU

    • Telemetry revision(?)

    • Better BMS AFE(?)

  • Soldering tutorial session after ^ comes in. Both hand and reflow. Not sure when/how to structure yet

  • We used our expiring money. Request $ for next 2 years

3. Mechanical

• Resume Reviews + 1 on 1s

  • Matt making form to coordinate reviews tn @Matthew Scorcia

• PVDR review and submit by EOW

• System Development folders in Bild

• WEEF request transparency: battery cells, fasteners, waterproofing + seals, brakes (brake lines already requested via eng soc)

• Sponsorship Reachout criteria doc work in progress

• Design reports, copying Formula

• Exteriors

  • all good for R&D materials/resources? (Yes for next two terms)

  • Chemical cabinet cleanout

  • R&D demo next Tuesday (Infusion)

• Internals

  • all good for R&D materials/resources?

    • Might be looking to do some tensile testing this/next term

    • New Helmets

      • @Fatima @Matthew Scorcia Sponsor this pls

    • Steering column replacement

    • Design review for detachable steering and bearing by end of term

  • Steering

    • Removal steering wheel design review - after finals (consider getting a quick release)

    • Second bearing for steering column; Replacing steering column (?)

  • PVDR updated for internals stuff

  • Sorting out tubing selections for chassis

    • workflow for sponsorships + reaching out: should I be CC’ing an email?

      • Add to companies of interest confluence page: Companies/Services of Interest

• Battery

  • MS15.5 enclosure removal design review - after finals

  • MS16 Cell selection timeline? Was the goal for EOT reasonable?

• Dynamics

  • Hydraulic parking brake set to purchase by EOT

    • eod means end of day btw

  • FSU nodal progress is good we have a rough nodal idea that we are working on improving

  • FSU force calculations are in the works

  • FSU seems to be on track to have nodal locked down by EOT

  • RSU currently waiting for more FSU progress before making any RSU improvements from MS 15

  • RSU goal is also to be locked down by EOT (nodal)

  • Main goals accomplished by end of November, documentation happening in December

• Sponsorship

  • Middleman for each subteam instead of Matt

  • (Several ops people w access to sponsorship email instead?) @Fatima

  • Each subteam will have a sponsorship contact, and then CC sponsorship email

• Other

  • Keep all iterations on Bild

• Bild: Tutorial on how to use it happening next week

  • Ideally before Thursday

• Implementation of Design Intent Reports

  • Link to Nathan’s document in mechanical channel @Winters Xia

4. Operations

   1. Weef + Dean’s funding applied for

   2. EngSoc got back and is just asking some questions about FSGP 2024 (how it went, how Engsoc funding could help improve)

   3. Team entry form sent

   4. Participation agreement

      1. Peter wants to completely avoid asking the Dean for her to sign any documents → he proposed that he take on her role as sort of the “head-decision maker” while Graeme becomes our Faculty advisor (Peter can’t do both roles). He mentioned he was going to talk to Graeme, and I’ll be talking with him as well next week → any questions you guys would like me to ask pls let me know (ex. how is this going to impact leads if they want any advice etc.)

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5. Other

Safety Meeting

• SOPs need to be updated (specifically battery SOPs)

• Misc forms + stickers updated by end of week

• Banner for MidSun

• Possible merch (Stefanie and Sara, bring up at Ops meetings) @Fatima @Evan McCarthy

• Poster for hallway @Fatima @Richard Wang