On my old team the students did just about everything, which showed. The engineer help we had was minimal with respect to them actually building the robot. For the most part they were there over our shoulders to watch what we did and help if they saw something going wrong but they didn't take over teh project. The only part of the robot that was built mostly by engineers didn't work well with the rest of the bot so it became a hassle to us.
As far as teams having engineers build their entire bots: I don't particularly care for that. Sure they might be able to learn about everything that the engineers did and be able to regurgitate the info but they loose out on the hands on working with the parts and engineers as well as having an engineer looking over their shoulder to help.
Just my $0.02 
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C~ya,
Carolyn Danielle
Thats C like the letter not like looking through your eyes or the large bdy of water! Just the letter C and yes it's on my birth certificate!
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