2024-2025 Onboarding Strategy

Common

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Aeroshell

Aero

Teach Solidworks over the span of a few weeks, try to make a shell, then give people Daybreak parts to work on/other personal projects.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w9u7IjXkL15nkwL7MDQMmuKWUHd0hJhoFGRw3Vl8cmM/edit?usp=sharing

Work along Solidworks lectures, branch into letting members make random things into Solidworks and running Solidworks competitions.

• For CAD, personal projects to increase motivation

• Solidworks competition - give everyone something to CAD and see who has the best

• Jump into next car if can’t find other projects to do

• Work on prototypes for latch and hinging mechanism

Composites

Mostly hands on learning, actually do composites work

1x2 foot molds that are similar to bottom shell, do the entire mold prep to layup process so members know what to do.

• Hands on small scale work (described beside)

Fergo

Frame

Trial by fire (with help as needed)

Dive straight into making a simple part following ASC and VR3 guidelines, experimenting and asking questions as you go along

• Some sort of introductory slides on the systems and what we will utilize in each system

• 2-3 weeks of designing a simple part start to finish, potentially 3d printing the parts at the end

• Intro to basic solids, reinforced with FEA (e.g., beam in pure bending problem and compare results w/ FEA)

Developing best practices

• 2D 3D sketches and weldments - using these to create a simple frame structure

• simple FSAE structure to follow VR3

• Ansys and FEA skills - simple cantilever beam problem and having them calculate stress/analyze results

• Physical/empirical testing with popsicle sticks maybe?

Ergo

Same as above

Dynamics

Suspension

Machine Shop and TIW Certification

2 weeks of independent study throughout the week and discussions and applications on workdays.

• lectures

• reading mandated

• starter projects

• presentations

• model manias

• cad projects - make some shit from home

• Discussions with Jacob about content from classes like Solids

• Look into Double wishbone vs Trailing arm

• vsusp

• FEA later

• textbook book club!!

• research! Again!

• skeleton model of a double wishbone sus - similar to last year suspension project - using vsusp

• excel calculator for spring rates, ride frequency (ehhh), CG, roll vs steering degrees

• fixing my budget

• research presentations

Steering

Same as above

• Discussions with Jacob about content from classes like Solids

• Look into 3-wheel steering vs 4-wheel Ackermann

Unsprung

Same as above

• Discussions with Jacob about content from classes like Solids

• Look into other teams unsprung components like hubs and uprights. The purpose of those and then generative design and Ansys

Emech

Enclosures

Since we work with every system on the car, we want to get them in front of the car, show them everything we do, how it works, shortcomings, etc.

CAD - Do a mini lecture showing all the features but have them try to design some simple parts but have them fix some issues, or at least attempt it. Go over these designs, talk about DFM.

TIW training on printers and laser cutting

• List of stuff on the current car we work on + how it works and why we need it, how electrical stuff interfaces with mechanical stuff

• All 3 subteams will need to learn SW

• Enclosures - Composites, strength to weight ratios for different configurations of composites, major focus on DFM

• At the beginning, sit them in front of the car so they can ask questions and learn about the components

• designing new parts to circumvent certain issues we faced on last car

  • make sure they are designing for manufacturability

• Start training on printers

Wire Harnessing

Same as above

• List of stuff on the current car we work on + how it works and why we need it, how electrical stuff interfaces with mechanical stuff

• All 3 subteams will need to learn SW

• Wire Harnessing will probably have to be a lecture based at first for the new software since it is very proprietary and a bit hard to use. Next part will be hands on working with wires and quality control. Starter projects to solidify EPLAN versatility

Same as above

Cooling

Same as above

• List of stuff on the current car we work on + how it works and why we need it, how electrical stuff interfaces with mechanical stuff

• All 3 subteams will need to learn SW

• Cooling - basics of heat transfer + maybe look into people interested in learning ansys and getting them started, Starter projects (CAD)

Same as above