2024-10-11 Mechanical Planning Meeting

Agenda

• What is PDR and what is CDR

  • PDR - Saturday 1/18

  • CDR - 2/23

  • Design Freeze - 3/9

• PDR and CDR date

• Mechanical Nextgen Timeline - be able to present a high-level timeline to the leads and receive feedback on it

  • Dynamics Hardpoints Set - 10/27

  • Frame Bounding Box Fixed

  • First Frame Iteration

  • PDR

  • Frame CDR

  • Aeroshell CDR

  • Dynamics+Emech CDR

  • Aeroshell Molds Ordered

  • Mechanical Design Freeze

  • Aeroshell Molds Delivered

  • VR3 Order Sent

  • Battery Assembled

  • Aeroshell Demolded

  • Frame Welded

  • Wheels Down

  • Shell to Frame Integration

  • Powered Run - Mar 15, 2026

  • Unveiling 2026

• Machining training

  • Drawing standards

    • Gerard

  • Checking Standards

    • Philip

• ClickUp

• What are the point of our positions

  • Team Captain

    • TC motivates and keeps team on track to hit big milestones (Wheel’s down, Design Reviews)

    • Facilitates cultural health of the team

      • People feeling satisfied with their work

      • People enjoying their time

      • Making sure socials are happening

      • Making sure leads are teaching their members

    • Politics

      • Dealing with OB

      • Dealing with the university

      • Dealing with comp

    • Preparing us for competition

      • Registration, fees, submitting design documents, travel costs

    • High level purchasing oversight

      • Budget tracking

  • Chief Engineer

    • Warden of the timeline

      • Attention to detail

      • Make sure things aren’t blocking each other

      • Bring up timeline items that concern them

    • Reinforcement of engineering fundamentals

      • Questioning every decision

      • Being rigorous

      • Putting in the work to prove a design will work

    • Making sure people learn important skills

      • CAD, CAM, PCB Design, Coding, FEA, Machining, Welding

    • Establishing a common design method and strategy

      • For design, validation, manufacturing

    • Manage and run design reviews

    • Monitoring and execution of inter-division dependencies

    • Making sure regulations are being followed

  • Division Lead

    • Handle material acquisition for their division

    • Warden of the timelines for their division

    • Monitoring and maintenance of intersystem dependencies

      • If there is an interference, or confusion about who will make a move and who will design around it, you facilitate the discussion and if it comes down to it, make the final decision

    • Establishing lines of communication between electrical and mechanical

    • In charge of scheduling lectures, division level design reviews

    • Making sure mechanical regulations are being followed

    • Overseeing critical tasks

      • Big CNC ops, Layups, HV integration, etc.

    • The final say in large design decisions

  • System Lead

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  • Subsystem Lead

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• Meeting structure - what do we hope to get out of them

  • System Meetings

  • Division Meetings

  • Lead Meetings

• Architecture Selection

Action Items:

• Michael talk to the other team captains to find out how they do purchasing and what we want to borrow from them