Mechanical Vs Electrical

The other day people on our team decided if they would like to be on the mechanical portion of our team or if they wanted to be electrical...and yet again mechanical has 2 times as many members...im just curious what the balance between mechanical and electrical members is...if you do that..

D.J. 45

[Christina]

Well, we had an almost even number of people on mechanical and electrical in the beginning. But we also had a ton of different groups. Now that we compressed design, mechanical, manufacturing, etc... into the mechanical group...mechanical has quite a bit more. But on the other hand, I think our mechanical group will be doing more anyway, so it works out pretty well.

~Christina

[Jeff Waegelin]

Our team is fairly small, so we really don't have the luxury of splitting our team up into set divisions. Everyone has their specialties, but they learn how to do everyone else's job (for the most part) so that we don't have to stop working because none of the "electrical guys" showed up that day. It works well for our team, but I can easily see a larger team having trouble with that little organization.

[Clark Gilbert]

MECHANICAL GUYS RULE!!!!!

Just messin w/ ya DJ.........

[whsrt_lilguppy]

The mechanical and electrical divisions of my team this year are more or less equal in the number of people they have in them, though in the past most members have opted towards mechanical. We normally try to train them all in the basics of both divisions anyways though, so that they'll have some understanding of each other when it comes to integration and when people from only one division show up but work still needs to get done.

[tennispro9911]

Our team was small (10 members) so that we didn't have the ability to spilt much into multiple teams. We had one main guy that did a majority of programming and electrical work and the rest of the team was mainly mechanical, although we helped out with electronics as needed like I wrote the autonomous code in some spare time.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Holy thread revival, BATMAN!!!! I thought all threads pre-2003 were locked. Wowzers...

[Gabe]

In our team mechanical tends to mix with electrical. Even though I am geared toward mechanical (geared: get it? ha), I also work with electrical like wiring Victors, Spikes, and wiring stuff together. In the same way electrical people know how to change wheels or tackle transmission issues, and things like that.

[SBass]

This year, my team had 3 programmers, 4 electricians, and 9 mechanics. Now we're losing 4 seniors.. 1 from mechanical, 1 from programming, and 2 from electrical. that will leave 2 programmers, 2 electricians, and 8 mechanics. One of our mentors whose younger son will be joining the team from FLL promises us several others that are on his team. Hopefully we'll pick up another programmer or 2, 2-3 more electricians, and I'm not sure how many mechanical needs. I didn't get to see them in action as they were in the machine shop at Xerox while the rest of us met at the high school. I think mechanical needs the most people though because they end up dealing with design problems.

[tseres]

our team is very small, only about 6 of us actually built the robot. we had 1 programmer, 2 electricians, and 3 machanical people. i was originally electrical, and i did a lot of the wiring, but i also did a lot of machanical as well. next year i'll also be the team programmer

[Michael Hill]

bump for great justice!

[MrForbes]

Move Zig

We have one student doing robot electrical, and the programmer does OI electrical.

Most of the build team did mechanical stuff. That's where most of the design/fabrication work is.

[nsr]

for us, our mechanical and electric guys were all a part of the same team. all we had were two different teams, one for building (pneumatics, electrical, mechanical, programing) and the other was website, and animation.

This way, i believe that the students who want to do mechanical will also get a taste and get their hands on everything an engineer encounters. the other way, they get the graphic designer and website skills.

[Cuog]

We have 3 or 4 electronics/programming students then the other ~15ish students work on all of the mechanical parts of the robot. I would like to see our team working closer together however because this division has caused a lot of blame to be thrown around and I would like to express to anyone in doubt how important it is to keep open lines of communication so that the sorts of problems we had this year don't happen.

[Danny McC]

Hmmm the electrical part of our robot is done by one student. Myself. Not to many people on our team would like to learn how to do it. Im hoping next year we get some more interested freshmen. It is very hard to do electrical and mechanical.