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The Electrical subteam is responsible for architecting, designing, integrating, and validating off the shelf and custom electronics designs into our competition airframe, testing airframes, and associated ground station hardware.
For the Fall 2024 term, the team is focusing on integration for our fixed wing aircraft and beginning the design around our competition requirements which will be released toward the end of September. This co-op is intended to be developing projects longer term than just this competition cycle and will be decoupled from system level engineering in favor of electrical board (PCBA) level engineering.
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Team Directors: Daniel Puratich Megan Spee Georgia Vachon Westerlund Nathan Green
The team directors are those who run the WARG organization as a whole. They are in charge of the overall operation of the team and can be reached at any time over Discord should the need arise.
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WaterlooWorks Support: Mia Weston (cecaes28@uwaterloo.ca)
For any WaterlooWorks and co-op credit related inquiries.
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Directors of all SDC teams at the University of Waterloo
If you aren’t comfortable talking to anyone at WARG about something with your co-op these contacts are available to you.
First
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Day Items
Introduction
The team uses discord to communicate!
- https://www.uwarg.com/join and introduce yourself in
#introductionsa few days ahead of your start date - Coordinate with your manager to schedule an onboarding meeting for your first day
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Please complete the following courses before starting any projects:
- SO1001 Employee Safety Orientation
- SO1081 Workplace Violence Awareness
- WHMIS 2015
- SO1010 Laboratory Safety
- Engineering Machine Shop Training
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We use Asana to manage tasks and timelines and Confluence to handle documentation. You should use your uwaterloo.ca email. If you do not have access to these services, ask your manager to provide you with an invite.
- Sign into Asana (https://app.asana.com/)
- Sign into Confluence (https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net)
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AEAC sync and leads meeting are optional meetings where we discuss system integration and admin for the team respectively. Flight tests occur sporadically, generally on weekends. You are welcome to join these, but are not required to.
First Week Items
- Arrange 1:1 meeting times with your mentor
- Review the team charter Team Charter (2021-2024)
- Skim the Electrical Confluence https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL
- Complete the Electrical Bootcamp: Electrical Bootcamp
Next Steps
Project specifics will be discussed during the first week and tracked with tasks in Asana, but the initial outline I have in mind is:. Listed below is a starting timeline for anticipated projects/work.
Bootcamp - LDO Project
Buck Converter PCBADigital & Analog Logic Project/Controller PCB
TBA (Competition Related Project)
Appendix
Useful Links
What do all the acronyms mean? Check it out here: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/l/cp/D2oP5Vjw
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