I'd hate to have the team be limited to pre-engineering students.
The best ideas, the best solutions to problems, the most encompassing answers are incubated in diversity of thought, outlook, perspective, needs.
While we've had a lot of students go on to study Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Computer Science, etc. engineering, and related hard science fields, such as, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Criminology,
we also have had a healthy mixture of some of our strongest student team members entering what you might think of, on first glance, as unrelated fields, such as,
- Political Studies
- Accounting
- Business
- Fashion Institute of Technology (but hey fashion is high technology right?)
- Graphic Design
- Art
- International Studies
- English
- Psychology (I wonder what that means...)
My son who got me into all this is pursuing a PhD in English/Psychology, while minoring in Computer Science. My daughter is a science major, and will probably choose a Biology major.
P.S.
My degree and profession is Computer Science, however, one of my minors is in technical theater. My first professional job was technical director for a black box theater. My wife has a Master of Fine Arts in Drama and her first professional job was stage managing for the Baltimore Opera. She now teaches English at CW Post.
Yet we're both fully involved in Robotics, and I think we bring some interesting perspectives to the students.