2024-09-08 Meeting Minutes

5 min

General Announcements

Miguel

• Welcome!

• Meetings every Sunday @ 1PM

• Make them more brief & to the point

30 min

Quarterly Vision

Miguel

• What does each team want to get out of this quarter? What are teams striving to complete this quarter?

  • USLI

    • Member retention

    • Engagement throughout the quarter

    • Meeting deadlines for USLI

    • Skillset

      • Lot of returning members from this year

      • Can have returning members give work

        • Give freshman returning members

  • RPL

    • Parts coming in for feed system

      • Engine fired before winter

        • Assembling feed system

        • Develop command system

      • Work with Lindsey & developing testing

        • RPL & USLI for testing

    • More civil engineering on test site

      • Concrete highway barriers in case of explosion

    • Have most freshman not as comfortable designing to build the feed system

    • EEs to spec & develop PLC control system

    • Space cleaning

  • Safety Officer

    • Keep the tables clean

    • Better documentation

      • Procedures for machines, etc.

    • More design reviews for various teams

      • Safety review

      • Keeping in mind differet

  • Interim VP

    • Reaching out this quarter for launches

    • More established relationship

      • Not just showing up & working

    • Work on the website

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  • Communications

    • Willing to help out on website

      • No experience, but can help

    • Newsletter

      • Go out on Mondays

      • Send admin draft

    • Shirts

      • Interest; can work with Thomas on that

      • Goal: take it out of USLI’s budget; if not available, can take out of USLI budget

      • Cap T-Shirt number at 15

      • Quote by Wed

  • Hobby

    • Improve L1 process

      • Abandoned rockets

        • Solution: deadlines for rocket construction

    • Get project & L2 program off the ground

    • Develop a better plan for motor ordering

    • Reach out to Chris for parts

      • What size of tubes

      • Next few days will reach out

  • Treasurer

    • Report on funding on each group

    • 50k

      • Only spend around 25k without getting additional sponsorship

    • Exec 3k

    • DA 10k

    • SmallSat working on proposal to be subcontractor on a grant with UTulsa & AFRL

      • Working on proposal with Louis

        • General operations of rocket

    • Recruiting for the engineering teams

      • Team leadership targeted at department heads

5 min

SpaceVision Travel

Miguel

• Travel Finalized

  • 5 people + Dr. K

  • Approved in CampusGroups + all hotels, flights & tickets purchased

• Looking to make Aidan a trip lead (explore Colorado wilderness)

15 min

Open Discussion

• Order organizers for uline bins

  • 168.15 for 450 dividers

  • Shipping fees: 20

    • Taking out of exec general fund

• Almost done creating CampusGroups recurring meeting

  • Actively track attendance

  • Access to same decision-making process

• Including subteam leads to exec

  • Agree to same attendance requirement

  • Come to next exec meeting; interested in being part of exec & what to contribute (2min speech)

• Later meeting on constitution editing + VP election logistics

• sensitive-info

  • Exec members only

  • Interested subteam leads (Aidan & Carter) attend next meeting