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

Nazneen, Grace, Akash, Arjun, Devansh, Abi

Laura, Jaelyn

Noya, Willie

Dynamics

Sohan, Tea, Oliver, Carter, Sumi, Manas, Aryan, William, La'akea, Anshul

Jacob Chen, Ashley Chu, Mia Thompson, Peter Nguyen, Sean Yu

Kevin, Joshua, Kiran, Jonathan

Emech

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

Living ; I did not kill myself : D

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

• Trial workday yippee!

• Ergo:

  • Carol worked on brake line calculations, made a really nice research document

• Frame:

  • All of our members were at trial workday lmao

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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