Intro
The electrical team recently created a new bootcamp that integrates both Altium Designer skill development and learning relevant electronics theory. The course is rather long due to the nature of the content it covers, but completing it quickly will grant you faster entry into completing relevant tasks for WARG EE. It is relatively new so we encourage everyone to leave questions in the #ee-bootcamp channel in discord so the team can help you out and also so we can improve the bootcamp going forward.
...
Welcome to the WARG Electrical Engineering (EE) Bootcamp! To become a new and official member of our EE subteam, you are required to complete the bootcamp. As a member of the EE team, you will be involved with the following:
Designing custom electronics (PCBs)
Assembly, bring-up, validation, and debug of electronics in the loop
Providing on-site EE assistance for competition aircrafts
The bootcamp is made to help you develop a basic foundation of knowledge in the industry of electronics, and to gain experience working with Altium Designer, our preferred and industry popular choice of PCB CAD software. By completing this bootcamp, you will have learned the following:
Several fundamental design principles and circuit topologies for electronics design
How to design schematics, (Schematic Capture)
How to design a PCB, which encompasses component placement & routing (PCB Layout)
How to make custom schematic symbols and PCB footprints
Basic fluency with Altium Designer, an industry popular PCB CAD software
At the end of the bootcamp, you will also have the opportunity to help improve the quality of this exercise by providing valuable feedback to us. As members who are generally well versed in electronics and hardware design, it is very possible that we may have overlooked crucial concepts that are otherwise imperative to your learning experience. Please contact your co-leads if you have any feedback for us.
A Note from the EE team
Electrical engineering has a rather large learning curve! With that being said, entering the field of electrical engineering can be rather overwhelming and challenging in the beginning. Despite all of this, you can be assured that with a decent work ethic and some self-motivation, you can power through this bootcamp and establish a basic foundation of knowledge that will improve exponentially overtime! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your co-leads in your respective on-boarding thread, we are here to help you!
Steps
- Message in #ee-bootcamp your name, your program, and that you’re getting started on the bootcamp
- Change your discord nickname to your real name
- Pickup the bootcamper role from #roles (if you haven’t already finished a bootcamp for another subteam)
- Follow the subpages of this page to start the bootcamp!
...