2024-08-12 Leads Meeting

 Date

Aug 12, 2024

 Participants

  • @Michael Mohn

  • @Hardhik Sripuram

  • @Harshit Dalmia

  • @Advait Joshi

 Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

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

 

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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