Welcome to WARG

We’re happy to have you on board as our new Electrical Engineering co-op! To aid your first few days here at WARG, we have created a startup guide that you can refer to to see what your project will be, key contacts, and some steps you’ll have to take.

Contact information

These are your day to day contacts:

• Managers: @Meghan Dang @Andrew Chai

  • Your managers will be responsible for your daily syncs and all administrative tasks.

Waterloo Works Support: Cheryl D’arcy (cdarcy@uwaterloo.ca)

• 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.

Additionally, feel free to contact the WARG leadership at any time if there are any issues that cannot be resolved through your co-op manager: Lead List

• Subteam leads: @Kenny Na @Meghan Dang @Andrew Chai

  • Subteam leads are responsible for the subteam you are part of

• Directors: @Evan Janakievski @Alison Thompson @Georgia Westerlund @Daniel Puratich @Nathan Green

  • Directors are responsible for the overall operation of WARG

• Safety captain: @Yuchen Lin

  • The safety captain is responsible for everyone’s safety

About WARG

WARG’s purpose is to:

• Enable UW students to learn about and develop innovative new aerial robotic solutions through collaboration and non classroom instruction

• Expose UW students to engineering challenges, such as mechanical, electrical, and controls

• Expose UW students to organizational procedure, such as project management, documentation, finance, fundraising, and marketing

• Provide UW students the opportunity to work with academic and industry professionals advising WARG

To meet these objectives, we compete annually in the AEAC student competition. For the most recent competition in 2025 May, we developed project Pegasus, a quadcopter aircraft.

Open

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 S25 term, we are focusing on architecting our 2026 VTOL competition aircraft. Your project, involving custom power converters, flight controllers, and CAN electronics, will maximize integration between our onboard hardware.

Administrative tasks

Pre 1st day tasks

Safety training

Please complete the all of the following:

To start the safety training:

1. Go to UW LEARN

2. At the top, click Self Registration

3. Find and click the course name

4. Click Register

5. Once enrolled, you can find the course again on the home page under All

Join Discord

WARG uses Discord as the primary means of communication.

1st day tasks

WARG bay

Scheduling

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.

Bootcamp

1st week tasks

Onboarding

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:

1. Bootcamp - LDO Project

2. Buck Converter PCBA

3. Speed/Flight controller

Useful links

• What do all the acronyms mean? Check it out here: https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/l/cp/D2oP5Vjw