Description
The Queen's Space Engineering Team (QSET) is a large multi-disciplinary team consisting of students from all engineering disciplines, in addition to the Faculty of Arts and Science. QSET designs a prototype Mars Rover for participation in the University Rover Challenge (for more information please visit urc.marssociety.org/home).
If selected as ECE Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and testing of all the software and electrical systems on QSET’s Rover projects. The ECE Manager is responsible for managing a team of 15 – 40+ students and will complete the design, construction, and testing required for all electrical systems on the rover. The successful applicant will work closely with the Rover CTO and the other technical managers to coordinate designs between subsystems and support other sub-teams in their design endeavors where required. Additionally, they will also be responsible for the development of training material over the summer in preparation for the onboarding of new team members in the fall. The incoming ECE Manager can structure their team as they see fit and are encouraged to assign strong team members as project/sub-team leads to increase accountability. The ECE Manager is also responsible for overseeing the safety of their team operations and their equipment.
The Queen’s Space Engineering Team encourages applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, Persons with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ2S+ community. If you require accommodations during the interview process, please contact qset @engsoc.queensu.ca.
APPLY BY: April 2nd, 2025 at 10:00 pm EST
Responsibilities
- Lead all technical development of the electrical and computer systems of the rover.
- Lead initial planning and preparing efforts over the summer to create project timelines, sub-team budgets, training material, and team resources for the ECE sub-team.
- Attend all relevant executive team, rover executive team, and sub team meetings.
- Work with the captain, CTO, and supervisors to define specific roles and responsibilities of the supervisors.
- Prepare training material as necessary to help support member onboarding and development.
- Organize and chair weekly sub-team meetings and or attend sub-team meetings chaired by supervisors.
Requirements
- Excellent team management and time management skills.
- Object-oriented coding experience in either C/C++ or Python.
- Electronic hardware debugging skills.
- General Linux experience.
- Simple Bash (command line) experience.
- Basic ROS experience (TF, ROSCPP, and ROSPY publisher/subscriber/services, actionlib, Gazebo).