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Student vs. Engineer Philosophy
Posted by Daniel, Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M Gunn Senior High School and NASA Ames.
Posted on 4/28/99 7:39 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: learning experience posted by Kyle Huang on 4/28/99 7:14 PM MST:
Kyle is not entirely correct about our robot being 100% student designed and built. We take design advice from engineers, in addition to letting them manufacture a few of the parts our shop can't support. Without engineers, we’d be starting from ground zero. That’s exactly what FIRST is trying to avoid.
On a similar note, I say “great!” to any team who wants to heavily involve engineers in these processes. I personally don’t mind the competition! It raises the bar, makes it more fun. I feel that no forced limitations should be implemented. However, I do want to say that as a student who works on a student run team with a student designed and student built robot, I get a HUGE amount out of this project --- more than I could imagine getting under any other arrangement. WE make the mistakes, WE learn, WE experiment…engineers keep us away from the brick walls. This is my ideal. I’m not belittling the “learn by observing” principle in any sense, I’m just saying that you should all give this a try sometime. It’s enlightening for us and it’s refreshing for our engineers. You’d be surprised how good of an engineer a sophomore in high school can become in the right light.
A student is simply an engineer that’s not quite as washed up =)
(boy did I put my foot in my mouth on that one!!)
Go Students!
-Daniel
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