2024-09-23 Mechanical Meeting

Announcements

• Action items I set from last weeks meeting:

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

  • 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

• First workday will all new members will be this Saturday. What are we planning for them?

• We need to start working on Daybreak

Workday review

Aeroshell

• 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

Fergo

Dynamics

Emech

First Workday Plan

Housekeeping:

• Join Slack/Discord

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

Activities:

Architecture Ideas

External vs Internal Suspension

Canopy Location(front, middle, back)

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

Recruiting

Refer to table below

Onboarding

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

Aeroshell

Fergo

Dynamics

Emech