Date
Attendees
Goals
- Review IC/EV historical PDRs
- Review notes from IC/EV captains and chief engineer regarding PDR
- Establish content requirements for solar PDR
- Establish presentation guidelines for solar PDR
- Optionally make a template for PDR
Discussion Agenda
| Time | Item | Who | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Discussion Notes
- Combustion PDR
- Purpose: to present high level data analysis and justification for pursuing projects
- Not specific designs yet, but mainly justifications
- Spent 1-2 hours per system (note: were very inefficient while going through them)
- BUT 1-2 hours including Q&A is still probably a good mark for each system
- Q&A takes majority of time
- honing in on why designs/changes are being made
- Q&A takes majority of time
- Essentially a more detailed version of our SRR
- Can be technical, but more in the sense of explaining justifications than going in-depth on specific parts
- Comparative analysis
- Decision matrices
- Why do we need to do this project?
- Electric PDR
- Set team level, system level, project level goals
- Clear targets in terms of projects
- Test plans
- MVP of the system and stretch goals
- Our PDR?
- Self-contained
- What we are doing and why we are doing it
- Analyze and consider all options for design decisions
- Ishan - I think it would be good to include MVP(minimum viable product) and stretch goals
- barebones, what the system needs to go in car
- General Feedback TLDR:
- PDR Mission statements (what do you wanna see?)
- Ishan - What are we building, specifically design details starting from a high level and going down to a component level, and why we think this design is the most effective at accomplishing the goals set out in SRR (justification). A layout of the work we need to do between now and CDR that we think is reasonable.
- Sid- Here is what we are building to address the problems we outlined in SRR. Here is our initial plan of attack (diagrams etc.) with a fully thought out justification on this design (decision matrices and comparative analysis). Here is our MVP that is regs-legal, and our stretch goals. Here are some items that we would like feedback on.
- Roy - Honing in on justification for design changes, both major and minor, and other projects that'll require manpower throughout the next design cycle.
- PDR Official Mission: What are we building, specifically design details starting from a high level and going down to a project level, and why we think this design is the most effective at accomplishing the goals set out in SRR with a high degree of justification. A layout of the work we need to do between now and CDR that we think is reasonable: minimum viable product and stretch goals included. Analyze all potential avenues for each decision with a hyper-critical eye. Plan for testing & verification.
- PDR Mission statements (what do you wanna see?)
Our design goal is to build a solar vehicle that can cross 2000~3000 miles of backroad terrain in a cross-country competition.
Action items
- Each system needs to have a 1-2 sentence description of that system's overarching design goal / philosophy. All of them should fall under the context of the one above.