[Vashts6583]

Over the past two or three years, we've altered our hierarchy depending on our student involvement.

Last year, do to our large size, we had a President (Senior) and 2 Vice Presidents (Also Seniors), one for mechanical, and one for business. From that, both auxiliary and drive were under the first VP, and operated seperately from each other. Our business/non-engineering department worked under our other VP. Sadly, our electrical and software group (mainly myself and one or two others) had no representation in the higher ups (but i still made my voice heard).

This year, however, due to our much smaller size, we had one president (Senior with most experience), and then a group-specific leadership based on team experience. This format allowed for less conflict among groups, and also for our new freshmen to learn alot from their older peers. Also, because we were so small, our mentors helped us out alot.

Really, you should base your student leadership around your team size, your subsections, and how you want it to function. If you want, you could even do a Knights of the Round format, where the President just helps get things started, but has equal say with the leaders of each subsection of your team, which I really wish we could implement in our team, but we're just too small as it is.

I hope this helped you out a little.