CS/EE/ME 75, 2015-16 - Course Schedule

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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.

== 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|GOTChA chart]]. <nowiki>[</nowiki>Note: preliminary version, 18 Aug 2015]

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==== 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 teams 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 ===

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===== 1 =====
| 28 Sep (M)
| Organizational meeting
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* Submit signup and scheduling sheet by Wed @ noon to box outside 109 Steele
* Read Formula SAE rules and baseline design descriptions (see HW #1)
* Team assignments (required for HW #1) will be available by Thursday (1 Oct)
| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Fall 2015 Homework 1|HW #1]]
* Formula SAE Electric competition rules
* Crew (subsystem) baseline description
* Collaboration tools (Slack, Confluence, Jira (later?), Box (needed?), github (later?))
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===== 2 =====
| 5 Oct (M)
| Project schedule
* Overall Formula SAE Electric schedule [TBD]
* GOTChA charts [Richard]
* Meetings and minutes
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Team meetings start.
| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Fall 2015 Homework 2|HW #2]]: Team schedules, subsystem GOTChAs
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===== 3 =====
| 12 Oct (M)*
| System specifications
* Baseline specifications [TBD]
* Documentation format [TBD]
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| HW #3: TBD
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===== 4 =====
| 19 Oct (M)+
| Safety
* Review of safety for high voltage electric systems
* Safety procedures for CS/EE/ME 75
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| HW #4: TBD
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===== 5 =====
| 26 Oct (M)
| Design reviews
* Role and purpose of design reviews
* Expectations for midterm and final reviews for Fall 2015
| Requirements review (midterms)
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===== 6 =====
| 2 Nov (M)+
| Team presentation - operations
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===== 7 =====
| 9 Nov (M)
| Team presentation - mechanical
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===== 8 =====
| 16 Nov (M)*
| Team presentation - energetics
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===== 9 =====
| 23 Nov (M)+
| Team presentation - support
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===== 10 =====
| 30 Nov (M)
| Plans for Winter 2016 (IPT)
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===== F =====
| TBD
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| Subsystem design review (finals)
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