This page contains the schedule for the course, linked to the Formula SAE electric project schedule and deliverables. Each term is a separate section, listed here in reverse chronological order.
Winter 2016
Course schedule
| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading/Activities |
Homework
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1
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4 Jan (M)
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Organizational meeting
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- Submit signup and scheduling sheet by Wed @ 11 am to box outside 327 Gates-Thomas
- Read Formula SAE rules and baseline design descriptions (see HW #1)
- Division assignments (required for HW #1) will be available by Wednesday (6 Jan)
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HW #1 - due 7 Jan 2016
- Collaboration tools (Slack, Confluence)
- Crew (subsystem) baseline description
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2
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11 Jan (M)
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Safety team presents and take facilities tour
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Division meetings start.
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HW #2 - due 10 Jan 2016
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3
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18 Jan (M)
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Systems enginnering
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4
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25 Jan (M)
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5
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1 Feb (M)
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Midterm
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6
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8 Feb (M)
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7
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15 Feb (M)
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8
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22 Feb (M)
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9
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29 Feb (M)
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10
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7 Mar (M)
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F
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TBD
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Fall 2015
Activities in Fall 2015 are focused on the design development phase of the competition.
Project GOTChA chart
This quad chart gives a snapshot of the planned activities for the term, at a high level. This information is presented here in the form of a GOTChA chart.
Goals
- Build a highly effective team with the skills and insights required to build an electric vehicle from scratch
- Complete a design that is compliant with the rules and will win the Formula SAE Electric competition
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Technical Challenges
- Very short timeline to produce working design, with minimal FSAE experience
- Lack of expertise in assembling and welding frame (design bottleneck)
- Meeting technical inspection requirements (competition bottleneck)
- Lack of expertise in high voltage electronics (design bottleneck, safety issue)
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Objectives
- Monitor system-level requirements and budget allocations for weight and cost of components as design is evolving
- Create compliant designs for all components and review design choices by the end of the term
- Midterms: clearly defined requirements for each component (performance, cost, weight)
- Finals: compliant design, with evidence of viability (prototype, vendor quote, etc)
- Train all CS/EE/ME 75 students in safety procedures and create protocols required for safe testing, operations
- Make enough progress in first term to build complete vehicle by end of second term
- Finalize and build plan for the vehicle frame and begin construction (mechanical)
- Complete a validated energetics design that will pass technical inspection (energetics)
- Create infrastructure required for divisions to optimize their designs with testing and simulation (operations)
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Approach
- Have working core equipment (eg, motors, battery pack) working to allow testing as soon as the students are ready
- Create simulation and testing environments that will allow design space exploration of mechanical and energetic systems
- Know the Formula SAE Electric rules by heart
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Course schedule
| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading/Activities |
Homework
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1
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28 Sep (M)
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Organizational meeting
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- Submit signup and scheduling sheet by Wed @ 11 am to box outside 327 Gates-Thomas
- Read Formula SAE rules and baseline design descriptions (see HW #1)
- Division assignments (required for HW #1) will be available by Thursday (1 Oct)
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HW #1
- Formula SAE Electric competition rules
- Collaboration tools (Slack, Confluence)
- Crew (subsystem) baseline description
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2
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5 Oct (M)
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Project schedule
- Overall Formula SAE Electric schedule [TBD]
- GOTChA charts [Richard]
- Lecture slides
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Division meetings start.
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HW #2: Division schedules, subsystem GOTChAs
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3
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12 Oct (M)*
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System specifications
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HW #3: Specifications, documentation
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4
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19 Oct (M)+
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Safety
- Review of safety for high voltage electric systems
- Safety procedures for CS/EE/ME 75
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HW #4: Requirements review planning
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5
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26 Oct (M)
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Design reviews
- Role and purpose of design reviews
- Expectations for midterm and final reviews for Fall 2015
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Requirements review (midterms)
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6
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2 Nov (M)+
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Requirements review (midterms)
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7
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9 Nov (M)
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Review feedback
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8
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16 Nov (M)*
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TBD
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9
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23 Nov (M)+
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TBD
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10
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30 Nov (M)
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Plans for Winter 2016 (IPT)
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F
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TBD
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Baseline design review (finals)
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