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Hello there! I’m Kevin Li, the current EE lead for WARG.

The electrical bootcamp consists of a PCB Design course using an industry grade PCB CAD software known as Altium Designer. The course is taught by Robert Feranec, a well-established PCB designer and educator. By completing this course you will gain the following skills with Altium Designer (these skills are easily transferable to other PCB CAD software):

  • Schematic symbols and PCB footprints creation from scratch

  • Schematic capture

  • PCB component placement, layout, and polygon creation

  • Output job file generation

The course is rather long, but completing it quickly will grant you faster entry into completing relevant tasks for WARG EE.

I will be creating a new bootcamp soon that integrates both Altium Designer skill development and learning relevant electronics theory in a concise manner. When that is created, I will have all new bootcampers complete it in addition.

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Welcome to the WARG Electrical Engineering (EE) Bootcamp! Before starting on this subteam bootcamp please ensure you’ve completed all tasks in Bootcamper Onboarding first. To become a new and official member of our EE subteam, you are required to complete the subteam 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

  •  Ensure you’ve completed instructions in Bootcamper Onboarding
  •  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
  •  Message kevinl#2158 on discord for details

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  • Follow the subpages of this page to start the bootcamp!