Posted by Deej- T190 at 04/24/2001 10:18 AM EST
Engineer on team #190, Gompeii, from Mass Academy and WPI.
In Reply to: student leaders in a team...
Posted by Ken Leung on 04/24/2001 12:48 AM EST:
WPI's team here is completely run by college students, with the exception of the Colonel(WPI advisor/Mech Eng Prof). The basic structure is we have two college students who are the XO's, and then the rest of the structure is split into two sides: Operations and Support. The support side takes care of fundraising, PR, cad designs, animation, shirts, buttons, cheering, all those sorts of things. The operations side has all robot operations, different subsystems (i.e. driveline, arm, grabber etc...), as well as controls, scouting and driver training. Operations is headed by one individual (myself), and the Support is headed by another college student. Underneath the heads of each side, there are various college students and high schoolers that are in charge of their respective groups. The way people were choosen were one by volunteering for positions, and then once the nominations/volunteering was completed, the lists were reviewed by the execs and decisions were made from there on who would take each role. For the most part this system worked rather well, keeping people on task for the majority of the season, as well as established a well structured chain of command. For visual representation, go to
http://www.massacademy.org/first/orgchart2001.jpg