View source for CS/EE/ME 75, 2015-16 - Course Schedule

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This page contains the schedule for the course, linked to the Formula SAE electric project schedule and deliverables.  Each term is a separate section, listed here in reverse chronological order.

== Winter 2016 ==

=== Course schedule ===

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===== 1 =====
| 4 Jan (M) 
| Organizational meeting
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* Submit signup and scheduling sheet  by Wed @ 11 am to box outside 327 Gates-Thomas
* Read Formula SAE rules and baseline design descriptions (see HW #1)
* Division assignments (required for HW #1) will be available by Wednesday (6 Jan)
| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Winter 2016 Homework 1|HW #1]] - due 7 Jan 2016
* Collaboration tools (Slack, Confluence)
* Crew (subsystem) baseline description
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===== 2 =====
| 11 Jan (M)
| Safety team presents and take facilities tour
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Division meetings start.  
| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Winter 2016 Homework 2|HW #2]] - due 10 Jan 2016
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===== 3 =====
| 18 Jan (M)
| Systems enginnering
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| <!-- [[CS-EE-ME 75 Winter 2016 Homework 3|HW #3]] -->
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===== 4 =====
| 25 Jan (M)
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| <!-- [[CS-EE-ME 75 Winter 2016 Homework 4|HW #4]] -->
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===== 5 =====
| 1 Feb (M)
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| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Winter 2016 Midterm Review|Midterm]]
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===== 6 =====
| 8 Feb (M)
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===== 7 =====
| 15 Feb (M)
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===== 8 =====
| 22 Feb (M)
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===== 9 =====
| 29&nbsp;Feb&nbsp;(M)
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===== 10 =====
| 7 Mar (M)
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===== F =====
| TBD
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== Fall 2015 ==

Activities in Fall 2015 are focused on the design development phase of the competition.  

=== Project GOTChA chart ===

This quad chart gives a snapshot of the planned activities for the term, at a high level.  This information is presented here in the form of a [[GOTChA Chart|GOTChA chart]].

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==== Goals ====
* Build a highly effective team with the skills and insights required to build an electric vehicle from scratch
* Complete a design that is compliant with the rules and will win the Formula SAE Electric competition

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==== Technical Challenges ====
* Very short timeline to produce working design, with minimal FSAE experience
* Lack of expertise in assembling and welding frame (design bottleneck)
* Meeting technical inspection requirements (competition bottleneck)
* Lack of expertise in high voltage electronics (design bottleneck, safety issue)

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==== Objectives ====
* Monitor system-level requirements and budget allocations for weight and cost of components as design is evolving
* Create compliant designs for all components and review design choices by the end of the term
** Midterms: clearly defined requirements for each component (performance, cost, weight)
** Finals: compliant design, with evidence of viability (prototype, vendor quote, etc)
* Train all CS/EE/ME 75 students in safety procedures and create protocols required for safe testing, operations
* Make enough progress in first term to build complete vehicle by end of second term
** Finalize and build plan for the vehicle frame and begin construction (mechanical)
** Complete a validated energetics design that will pass technical inspection (energetics)
** Create infrastructure required for divisions to optimize their designs with testing and simulation (operations)

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==== Approach ====
* Have working core equipment (eg, motors, battery pack) working to allow testing as soon as the students are ready
* Create simulation and testing environments that will allow design space exploration of mechanical and energetic systems
* Know the Formula SAE Electric rules by heart
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=== Course schedule ===

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===== 1 =====
| 28&nbsp;Sep&nbsp;(M) 
| Organizational meeting
* [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/courses/cs-ee-me-75/2015-16/pdf/L1_kickoff-28Sep15.pdf Lecture slides]
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* Submit [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/courses/cs-ee-me-75/2015-16/pdf/signup-fa15.pdf signup and scheduling sheet]  by Wed @ 11 am to box outside 327 Gates-Thomas
* Read Formula SAE rules and baseline design descriptions (see HW #1)
* Division assignments (required for HW #1) will be available by Thursday (1 Oct)
| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Fall 2015 Homework 1|HW #1]]
* Formula SAE Electric competition rules
* Collaboration tools (Slack, Confluence)
* Crew (subsystem) baseline description
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===== 2 =====
| 5 Oct (M)
| Project schedule
* Overall Formula SAE Electric schedule [TBD]
* GOTChA charts [Richard]
* [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/courses/cs-ee-me-75/2015-16/pdf/L2_planning-05Oct15.pdf Lecture slides]
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Division meetings start.  
| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Fall 2015 Homework 2|HW #2]]: Division schedules, subsystem GOTChAs
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===== 3 =====
| 12 Oct (M)*
| System specifications
* Baseline specifications
* [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/courses/cs-ee-me-75/2015-16/pdf/L3_specifications-12Oct15.pdf Lecture slides]
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| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Fall 2015 Homework 3|HW #3]]: Specifications, documentation
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===== 4 =====
| 19 Oct (M)+ 
| Safety
* Review of safety for high voltage electric systems
* Safety procedures for CS/EE/ME 75
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| [[CS-EE-ME 75 Fall 2015 Homework 4|HW #4]]: Requirements review planning
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===== 5 =====
| 26&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;(M)
| Design reviews
* Role and purpose of design reviews
* Expectations for midterm and final reviews for Fall 2015
| Requirements review (midterms) 
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===== 6 =====
| 2 Nov (M)+
| Requirements review (midterms)
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===== 7 =====
| 9 Nov (M)
| Review feedback
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===== 8 =====
| 16&nbsp;Nov&nbsp;(M)*
| TBD
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===== 9 =====
| 23 Nov (M)+
| TBD
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===== 10 =====
| 30 Nov (M) 
| Plans for Winter 2016 (IPT)
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===== F =====
| TBD
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| Baseline design review (finals)
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