Dualistic Team

[Katie_UPS]

It sounds like large teams can handle this pretty effectively. UPS is a small team (12 students), and so our "business side" is one student. There are "robot side" people who help her out when they can, but its mostly her doing a lot of the award writing, PR, grant writing, etc. Next year, she'll be gone. I speculate that we won't have a defined "Business" side as much as we'll have kids doing their "build" duties as well as writing chairmans, organizing events, etc.

UPS, however, has always been small and never has had more than two full-time students on the "business" side of things...

[Jared Russell]

Add us to the list of teams that do this. We actually do it physically - we have a classroom/computer room connected to a small shop with large windows in between. The manufacturing and prototyping folks spend most of their time in the shop, while the CAD, animation, web, media, and business teams spend most of their time in the classroom.

Just make sure that one half doesn't forget the other exists! (Large bay windows and communal team dinners help to alleviate this )