2024-09-23 Mechanical Meeting

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Notes

Announcements

• Action items I set from last weeks meeting:

  • Have material ready to set a track width, wheelbase, and CoG location

  • Have the requirements sheet completely filled in to the best of your ability

  • Have architecture brainstorm ideas

• We will be bringing Daybreak to the EnergizeUT event on Wednesday - please volunteer if you are able

• First workday will all new members will be this Saturday. What are we planning for them? (list down below)

• There should no longer be weeks without system meetings

  • Discussion topics

    • What got accomplished in the week prior

    • What must be accomplished in the week following

    • What each member will be working on

  • Use meetings as a time to work. We cannot finish a car in two years if people only collaborate on Saturday

• We need to start working on Daybreak

  • Please have week-by-week timelines for each system by the end of the week (use the Gantt chart on the SharePoint)

SRR Prep

SRR Official Date: Sunday, October 6, 2024?

• Continue working on your slides

• Start coming up with potential questions the audience might ask and prepare answers for them

• SRR Example Resources:

  • Dynamics

    • Electric Dynamics SRR

    • Combustion Dynamics SRR

  • Body

    • Electric Body SRR

    • Combustion Body SRR

  • Aeroshell

    • Electric Aero SRR

    • Combustion Aero SRR

    • Combustion Composites SRR (2024)

    • Combustion Composites SRR (2023)

  • Emech

    • Electric Powertrain SRR

    • Electric Electronics SRR

• Who do we want to invite to SRR

  • Thiago - All

  • Jacob - All

  • Nathan - All

  • Dr. Keena - All

  • Esther - Aero

  • Eesha - Aero

  • Tanu - Dynamics

  • Maddox - Dynamics

  • Andrew Cloran - Dynamics

  • Tyler - Dynamics

  • Julian - Emech

  • Clark - Emech

  • Matthew - Body

  • Gautam - Body

  • Lani - Body

  • Tommy - Body

Recruiting

Refer to table below

Aeroshell

Fergo

Dynamics

Emech

What is something you struggled with this week? What is something you are proud of this week?

Workday Review

• aerodynamics

  • get people installing software(solidworks, slack, BILD, etc)

  • while theyre installing begin to introduce the slides where they can research different shell shapes

  • LUNCH!

  • second half of day will be solidworks, get them started on basic sketches and all that

  • for the people who have solidworks experience already and don’t want to relearn, we may begin to help them w ANSYS

• composites

  • again get them their software(solidworks, slack, BILD, etc)

  • introduce the 3 research projects and get them caught up, assigned to, and working on one of the 3

First Workday Plan

New members

Old members

Housekeeping:

• Join Slack/Discord

• Install software (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Ansys, etc.)

Architecture Ideas

External vs Internal Suspension

Canopy Location(front, middle, back)

• Aidan work on fluids lab

Onboarding

https://cloud.wikis.utexas.edu/wiki/x/4opvCw