LaACES

LaACES 2012-2013 Lecture and Activity Schedule

Week	Session	Date	Lecture Title	Activities
1	1	08/23/12	I1. Overview of the LA ACES Program and Introduction to the Student Ballooning Course	Introductions of students and faculty. Watch ACES-30 documentary video. View other ACES flight videos, photos, launch, etc.
2	2	09/04/12	E1. Introduction to Electronics E2. Electronic Components	E1. Electrical Measurements and Instruments
2	3	09/06/12	E3. Prototyping Techniques and Soldering E4. Assembly Techniques	E2. Identifying Electronic Components - SkeeterSat Inventory
3	4	09/11/12		E3a. Soldering Tutorial E3b. Reconciling a Schematic with a Layout Diagram E4. Constructing SkeeterSat SkeeterSat Manual SkeeterSat Schematic
3	5	09/13/12		E4b. Calibrating SkeeterSat, SkeeterSat reports
4	6	09/18/12	P1. The BalloonSat Development Board P2. Introduction to Programming	P1. Building the BalloonSat Controller (Stage 1)
4	7	09/20/12	P3. The BASIC Stamp Editor Report Writing	P1. Building the Balloon Sat Controller (Stage 1 cont.) P2. Building the BalloonSat Controller (Stage 2)
5	8	09/25/12		P2. Building the BalloonSat Controller (Stage 2 cont.) ACES Code Example
5	9	09/27/12	P4. Digital I/O: Connecting the Outside World SkeeterSat Report Review: Examples of What Not to Do	P3. Simple digital I/O with the BalloonSat Controller
6	10	10/02/12		P3. Simple digital I/O with the BalloonSat Controller (cont.)
7	11	10/04/12	E6. Data Acquisition E7. Analog to Digital Converters	E6. Using BoxCar and HOBO E7. A/D Conversion
7	12	10/09/12	P5. Serial I/O - Communications	P4. Interfacing Serial Peripherals to the BASIC Stamp P5. Communicating to External Memory
8	13	10/11/12		P4. Interfacing Serial Peripherals to the BASIC Stamp (cont.)
8	14	10/16/12	P6. Expanding the BASIC Stamp: Useful peripherals	P5. Communicating to External Memory (cont.) P6. Interfacing to a Real-Time Clock
9	15	10/18/12		E7c. Putting it all together - Interfacing to a sensor Electronics Activity 7c Schematics Electronics Activity 7c Computations Electronics Activity 7c Circuit Model
9	16	10/23/12		Interfacing to a sensor (cont.) Writing a report on sensor interfacing
10	17	10/25/12	D1. The LA ACES Balloon Vehicle and Flight Profile	D1. What is a BalloonSat? BalloonSat Manual BalloonSat Schematics Researching your payload
10	18	10/30/12		Getting Started Draft and Intro
11	19	11/01/12	P7. System Testing and Debugging E5. CAD Tools for Circuit Design	P7. Measuring Temperature and Testing BASIC Stamp Software E5. CAD Tools for Circuit Design
11	20	11/06/12	D2. Payload Construction Considerations & Techniques	D2. Constructing a Foam-core Board Structure
12	21	11/08/12
12	22	11/13/12		Producing charts, tables & flow diagrams Inserting figures & tables into Word documents
13	23	11/15/12		Working in Groups
13	24	11/20/12	Presentations	D3. Identifying Thermal Requirements D4. Thermal Calculations & Measurements
13	25	11/27/12	D4. Thermal Calculations & Measurements (cont.)
14	26	TBD	M10. Requirements Module: The Basics M11. Requirements Module:Writing Requirements	M8. Pre-PDR Reports & Presentations
1	1	01/15/13	M1. Management, Life Cycle, Documentation	Requirements Presentations M1. Developing a team contract
1	2	01/17/13	M2. System Design M3. Defining the Project Tasks, Costs & Schedule M4. The Project Schedule M5. Risk and Risk Management	M2a. Producing a System Design Drawing M4a. Producing a timeline with MS Project
1	1	01/22/13	D5. Mechanical Design Guidelines The Pre-PDR Document The PDR Document The Pre-CDR Document The CDR Document The FRR Document	D6. Testing Materials in Extreme Environments D7. Payload Shock Testing
2	3	01/24/13	E8. Power Sources	E8. Power Source Testing
2	4	01/29/13	Formatting	Formatting Exercise