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Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

30 min

Announcements

Michael

  • Pickle Updates

    • What’s the status

    • What’s the plan

    • What’s the deadline

  • Recruitment

    • Timeline

    • Ops-Info Session

    • Open Garage Logistics

  • 2026 Car Deadline

    • Lets set a date

10 min

Operations Announcements

Hardhik

  • Energize UT

  • Networking meetings

Facilities

Kayla

  • Facilities calendar created - EHS timeline, pickle cleanup timeline, ETC garage cleanup timeline, etc.

  • EHS timeline

    • btw we will need to implement the SOPs and to prove to EHS in person

    • SOPs submitted today - NEED MOTOR TESTING NEW SOP - CONTROLS

    • 8/19 EHS meeting - we get revision notes back from EHS

    • 8/26 our FINAL SOPs are due again

    • 9/3 final EHS meeting for SOP approval

    • 9/10 EHS Pickle Walkthrough

      • our SOP implementation is due

  • pickle cleanup

    • 8/31, 9/7, 9/14 main weekends

    • https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805054BADA628A4FB6-50643886-pickle#/ signup was made just to keep track of tasks on the main cleanup sessions - IF STOP WORK ORDER IS LIFTED obviously we dont need to be all cleaning the entire day, so we can take shifts as needed

    • timeline - i pasted from the pickle plans sorry bros

      Rough Pickle Cleanup Timeline:  

      Pickle cleanup due on 9/20 

      8/24 (or before) - sweep through and final purchases / organization ideas / storage ideas 

      8/31 weekend - trash, projects, chemicals, immediate work, parts put in a safe place, unpack, old furniture isolate, 

      • Need to have bought cleanup supplies  

      • Purchases due before  

      • trying to get to a blank slate - out with the old 

      • Take inventory – keep, donate, throwaway – method to get rid of all the unused things from the 1900s  

        • Keeping historical items and resources  

      9/7 - blank slate - organizing, installing, moving 

      • organize any storage we currently use - labels  

        • safety cabinets, electric drawers and bins 

        • solar cubby bins 

      • repairs need to be in the process 

      • moving the new supplies and equipment in 

        • Surplus visit due  

      9/14 - final  

      • labeling, categorizing, tidying 

      • data sheets, ppe, safety cabinet, stocking, rules finalized, systems (cleaning supplies, trashbags) 

      • move everything back in, find a permanent place for all items 

    • mass disposal

    • new expectations and organizational systems

      • crates for current projects and its materials / supplies

      • storage of stock and materials

      • central shared labeling, cleaning supplies - repeat purchases

      • pictures submitted to me post workday of the spaces through a form, sowwyyy

    • surplus visit - get them to take out all the unused equipment and the hallway buildup

      • find new chairs

      • wolf den table

  • Pickle cleanup and EHS SOP implementation purchasing list

    • open requests for things for eroom organization ^

    • im gonna buy a bunch of organizing units and containers and whatnot esp for the the grey cabinets

  • might have a more casual facilities meeting this next week ab pickle and garage cleanup - open to members / leads - if its something people want

  • mgchemicals form - consumables buy list

  • chemical database

    • will be a thing from now on in the form of an excel sheet - a new thing that we are doing for EHS

    • need help with datasheets, safety sheets for chemicals

  • keys - redistribute yourself - but there is now a log on sharepoint

    • just note down if you pass your keys to someone and it is intended to stay with them for a significant amt of time

  • cohort leads are Gerard Cardenas, Kenta Yoshizaki, Harshit Dalmia, Noah Hickman

Chief E Concerns

Philip

Timelines

  • Believe the first workday of the year should be the timeline planning meeting - will probably take all day

  • Will invite all leads and subleads (past and present), and any veteran members with a lot of experience that could have insightful input into the timelines

  • I am putting great emphasis on timelines this cycle. It is essential that we have a reasonable timeline we all agree upon

  • Three phases to making the timeline:

    • Goal Tierlist

      • A ranked list of high-level goals we want to achieve with our next vehicle

      • Ranking goals will allow us to decide what to prioritise

    • Dependency Tree

      • A chart of what tasks must be accomplished to meet our goals

      • Basically a more abstract flowchart. Allows us to easily populate our project management tools and know what to do next at each step of the process

      • Ex: dynamics trackwidth → chassis width → aeroshell width → mold design → mold → layups

    • Timeline

      • Make the timeline backwards, working back from powered run deadline

      • Can then move forward and modify based on expected lead times

Recruiting

  • We have roughly one month from start of school to introduction of new members. Gives us more breathing room

  • Questions I want each lead to be thinking about - want our process to be a bit more organized this time

    • How many members per system

    • What criteria are we looking for in the application process

    • What questions are we going to ask during interviews? How common do we want them to be?

      • Qualitative? Quantitative? Behavioral? Technical?

Onboarding

  • Time to start prepping onboarding materials - I want to see and sign off on them well before the first workday

  • Engineering is hard - teaching is harder. You can’t just wing it - you need a plan

  • I want to discourage lecture-style teaching. There is very little technical theory that we can teach better than a textbook or a youtube video. What we have to do is empower our members enough that they seek out these resources of their own volition

    • What we can teach them: engineering intuition, manufacturing principles, efficiency, curiosity, excitement

  • IMO there should be two stages of starter projects:

    • First stage: communal practice and learning

      • EX: Everyone CADs the same thing

    • Second stage: individual exploration and work

      • EX: Each member gets assigned a part to design and they are responsible for it from start to finish

  • People’s work should be basically what they will be working on on the car. Not something unrelated

    • Think giving new members projects on Daybreak is a good way to shorten the process for them. Don’t have to wait a year to make what they designed. They can design and then start manufacturing and then literally put it on the car

  • Gauging progress - how much planning has been done on this?

Housekeeping

  • We are gonna keep using clickup - please try to stay on top of it. It sames so much time and effort when it is kpet up to date

  • Are people fine with me getting rid of old boards and starting from scratch or no? I want to have one board for daybreak and one for nextgen

✅ Action items

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