October 26th, 2022

Please include critical progress updates, discussion items or meeting requests under your subteam section below. DOC WILL BE FINALIZED ON October 24th, MONDAY END OF THE DAY

 

General Announcements

@Austin Tailon Huang

  • We have registered for URC!

  • Midterm bay inspections next week

  • Team update with Professor Teetstra soon → PM for edit access

  • Term transition preparation

  • Battle bots?


Mechanical

@Austin Tailon Huang @Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • Rover Comms stand PDR on Nov 5 @5pm

    • Attendance from Billy and Logan requested

    • PDR for battery mount and ebox to follow soon

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • 4 new members retained, finishing training next week

    • Projects ready to go for first years

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Assembling science

    • Finding a mech lead for next term

    • PDR reviews

 

  • Misc.

    • N/A


Electrical

@Ari Wasch @Logan Hartford

UPDATES

  • PDB and BMS have been ordered

  • Buck testing has started, and so far not so good

  • Looking into purchasing the shelf backups for the BMS and buck 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • Billy is doing great on comms

    • 2 others are starting a side project to get familiar with Altium

    • 2 others are working on sourcing off-the-shelf parts at the moment but we will get them working on something more significant soon

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Purchase backup parts

    • Waiting on the boards to arrive

    • Get new members started on projects

 

  • Misc.

    • Currently collaborating with other rover teams on comms am in contact with two other team leads


Software

@Orson Marmon @Keyon Jerome

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on? (Link CONFLUENCE task pages)

    • How’re these tasks going?

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Is the completed task a prerequisite to anything?

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

    • (One bullet per update)

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • How’s the training going?

      • What’re they working on?

      • How’re they feeling?

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Major focus of the team in the next week

 

  • Misc.

    • Anything you’d like to bring up


Firmware

@Nicolas Palmar

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on? (Link CONFLUENCE task pages)

    • How’re these tasks going?

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Is the completed task a prerequisite to anything?

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

    • (One bullet per update)

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • How’s the training going?

      • What’re they working on?

      • How’re they feeling?

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Major focus of the team in the next week

 

  • Misc.

    • Anything you’d like to bring up


Science

@Clare Burnley

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on?

      • Testing Co2 sensor and temperature sensors for mounts

    • How’re these tasks going?

      • successful, got results and in the process of interpreting them

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Co2 tests done

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • none

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

        • all good!

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • well! training is done, planning on getting 3/4 ppl in the bay for ninhydrin tests

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Major focus of the team in the next week

    • Co2 tests (format and interpret results)/planning ninhydrin tests

 


Business

@Anna Fyfe

UPDATES

  • Progress Updates

    • What has your team been working on?

      • Eng soc submission for F2022

      • Submitting purchases

      • Team budget

    • How’re these tasks going?

      • Eng soc is completed

      • Purchases are almost done

      • Next budget meeting internally is next week on the 3rd

    • Have you completed any key steps/tasks?

      • Eng soc is done!

    • Have you encountered any blockers?

      • Do you need to set up a meeting with another lead?

 

  • Onboarding Updates

    • How’re the new members doing?

      • How’s the training going?

      • What’re they working on?

      • How’re they feeling?

ACTION ITEMS

  • What’s next?

    • Finish submitting orders

    • Make leads aware of new addition to expense claim forms for WEEF (not a big change)

 

  • Misc.

    • n/a