[John Gutmann]

If engineers design it it is an engineer's robot not a student's robot because the engineers know how every should and will work usually and they usually find the easy way to do something. If the students build it they are just following directions.

You can compare it to FLL. do the kids in FLL build a lego robot of those pictoral direct or doi they actually design and build it? If they built them from directions FLL would just be one big lego set that competes with a predetermined outcome.