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

[FunkyRatDemon]

At least you have people which want to do those, we have 3 people on our marketing team, i had to forcefully recruit those 2 (i'm the other)

[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.

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Budda648

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

Yeah really... I'm surprised no-one else has said anything...

Oh well. Guess it was a good topic

Jacob

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

Yeah really... I'm surprised no-one else has said anything...

Oh well. Guess it was a good topic

Jacob

At least he "searched" before posting! He deserves props for that. Isn't that what everybody preaches (myself included)?

Pavan.

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Pavan

At least he "searched" before posting! He deserves props for that. Isn't that what everybody preaches (myself included)?

Pavan.

Absolutely! I'm not complaining at all. I'm commending what he has done. I'm just saying that I'm surprised that noone else had made any other comments to this effect; The conversation continued as normal.

Jacob

[Rich Ross]

Our electrical team was a small number of students (i want to say 2 or 3, but may have only been one), but in many ways was in the best shape because we had two GM engineers helping with the E board.

Mechanical was a lot larger, but they obviously dealt with a lot of things like electric motors and such.

[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