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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 assocated associated ground station hardware.
This Spring 2024 term, we are focusing on developing fillthe team is focusing on our system integration ramp up to competition in May and will then begin designing system architecture for our next competition roughly a year out. 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.
Administrative Details
Key Contacts
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Waterloo Works Support: Mia Weston
For any waterloo works and co-op credit related questions.
SDC Support: Graeme & Prof Teertstra
Graeme Adair: gadair@uwaterloo.ca
Peter Teertstra: pmteerts@uwaterloo.ca
Directors of all SDC teams in Waterloo
If you aren’t comfortable talking to anyone at WARG about something with your co-op these contacts are available to you.
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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 , typically on for your first day
Safety Training
Before your first day, please complete the following courses:
- SO1001 Employee Safety Orientation
- SO1081 Workplace Violence Awareness
- WHMIS 2015
- SO1010 Laboratory Safety
- Engineering Machine Shop Training
You can access these courses by going to Learn, selecting “Self Registration,” and enrolling in these courses.
Some of these you may have already completed for other university courses and are required by the university to keep you safe in our bay!
Joining Management Softwares
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
- Complete Coop Information Form
- Arrange 1:1 meeting times with your mentor
- Complete Coop Information Form
- Review the team charter Team Charter
- Skim the Electrical Confluence https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EL
- Complete the Electrical Bootcamp: Electrical Bootcamp - F23
Next Steps
Project specifics will be discussed during the first week and tracked with tasks in Asana, but the starting initial outline I have in mind is:
Protection circuit additions to existing buck converter PCBAs
Zeropilot PCBA next rev: new micro, replace power electronics
Gemini PCBA improvements
Tracking Antenna PCBA improvements
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