Page Comparison

Attendance

• Present

  • Jerry Tian

  • Neel Patel left early

  • Daniel Puratich

  • Michael Botros joined in half way thru

  • Ethan Abraham joined 3/4 way thru lol

• Missing:

  • Nolan Haines

  • Nathan Green

  • Megan Spee

References

• 2024-06-05 Electrical Director Sync

Introduction

• What progress has been made in the last month?

  • Servo module: test plan written

  • Tracking Antenna Board: on architecture

  • Buck 48V->12V: board is ready to order

  • GPS Breakout: schematic is almost done

  • 6S Power Module: architecture phase

  • Lighting: another rev is starting

  • Pegasus 2 Wiring: Nolan on prep before assembly session

  • ZP3: a board is ready for EFS

  • 12V->5V buck assembled, 2x working and validated ready for flight, 2x need debug, 1x ruined pad

  • 6S Servo Module: not started, but dedicated for co-op

• What do you and your team want to achieve in the next month?

  • Pegasus 2 Wiring

    • EE Leads should discuss

    • Harness schematic for Peggy 2?

    • No timeline

    • Nolan leading assembly session.

    • Jerry Tian Will do harness schematic, will take roughly a week,

    • draw main battery harness first

    • 12S2P for Pegasus 2

      • two 6S batteries in series

      • two in parallel

      • identical to how we have Pegasus 1 for the battery count and configuration, the harness should be optimized ofc

    • For reference: Big Quad 2025

    • Nathan Green Daniel Puratich can review

    • Nolan Haines's plan for wiring was to do it this week possibly, may need to pivot here.

    • Cannot complete within two weeks

    • Jerry Tian thinks will take end of term

  • plan for ordering boards

    • https://app.asana.com/0/1201092301607059/1207718297395671

    • Timeline for board bring-up and testing

    • End of month this plan will be made.

• What roadblocks do you need help clearing to make this happen?

  • Lighting System

    • Leads need to figure out what’s happening here

  • Leadership of Electrical Team

    • Daniel Puratich

      • the team needs strong leads to get concrete objectives from people

      • there’s plenty of people, they need direction, otherwise they get board and leave

      • no point in staying or doing anything for a team with no goals or necessity

    • Clear delegation of projects doesn’t exist

      • Sync with Nolan within the next week and all EE leads to clearly define who is leading which projects and set expectations for project progress.

      • Jerry Tian

        • Wants to do the fixed wing related projects

        • doesn’t have time for Peggy 2 Stuff

        • 6S Power Module

        • GPS Breakout

        • Servo Module 12S bring-up

        • 6S Servo Module ← Daniel Puratich taking with co-op.

    • Neel Patel Jerry Tian both cant make EE meeting

      • possibly reschedule the meeting to get more leads involved

      • later in evening a lot of people didn’t join call

  • Too many projects

    • not enough leads for the projects

      • grouping projects together and assigning out more project managers for individual projects

      • PMs might not have experience

      • have times to discuss projects, discuss progress with members

      • https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AD/pages/2321088579/Allowing+Mistakes?search_id=9bae90be-66b4-4e57-970d-36d1eb9321c4

    • not enough leadership structure

    • just focus on higher priority projects

      • slowly drop other projects?

      • currently telling new bootcampers there are no new projects?

      • breaking down projects into smaller chunks then delegate from there

      • there are no bootcampers rn

      • for fall not enough bandwidth to support new projects

      • leads don’t have bandwidth to support the existing projects

      • which things aren’t being supported?

        • gps can adapter: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL/pages/2523594761/GPS+CAN+Adapter?search_id=58702c05-98e1-44b3-ae43-41b2eb2c9277

        • 5->24 boost

        • 6s esc

        • smoke stopper

        • leads dont have bandwidth to inquire about these

      • bring up new PMs

      • if people working on projects dont ask for questions then leads dont have time to poke then

      • using ee meeting could be an easier way to poke

    • place of EE meeting

      • lots of back and forth between Daniel and Michael lol

      • place of 1:1s vs place of the electrical meeting

      • get the specifics in the 1:1

      • could do presentations in the ee meeting to discuss projects

      • could get updates from people, but it can be irrelevant for other team members

      • ee meeting is 1 hr

      • ee meeting has ended really quick this term

      • should get people’s updates to hold the accountable

      • then use the rest of the time to have someone, a single person, deep dive into their project in detail, share screen n show confluence or schematic, take questions

      • hold people accountable for progress

      • take the whole hour, project updates should be more than 10 seconds, force more updates, push the burden more on members

Jerry will schedule another sync for next week to follow up on all of this.