'Maybe my crafting was something I should embrace rather than hide.' This PhD student is a crafter and an engineer. In a new ScienceWorkingLife, she writes about how she learned to embrace both sides.
My classmates were certain we needed to use steel. We were designing a wheelchair for a college engineering course and they felt only steel would be strong enough for the handheld levers that would allow the user to propel the chair with a rowing motion. I wasn’t so sure. Based on my experience making sculptures with soda cans and creating jewelry with wire, I believed steel would be too heavy and aluminum would be a better option.
The wheelchair project was a hint that my crafting might be important and relevant, but for the next few years I continued to avoid bringing it up in professional spaces. When I was interviewing for engineering jobs after finishing my master’s degree and was asked whether I tinkered in my spare time, for example, I was sure the panelists wouldn’t care about my elaborate homemade holiday cards, even though they featured lever action and moving parts.
Soon I was seeing more examples of connections between engineering and craft that I had previously overlooked. When working on the wheelchair project, I put my sewing skills to use creating cushioned grips for the handles. The engineering “design kitchen” where my undergrad classmates and I tested our ideas was stocked with inexpensive tools including felt, pipe cleaners, and popsicle sticks—materials that would not be out of place in a craft bin, I now realized.
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