Education
She attended Stanton College Preparatory School and later the Rhode Island School of Design.
She attended Stanton College Preparatory School and later the Rhode Island School of Design.
Engineer"s work has been featured on the cover of i-Doctorate magazine and in the Boston Globe. Engineer held a major fashion show after the success of and had model Diana Georgie as the opening catwalker. Engineer was eliminated in the sixth episode, the Banana Republic challenge, along with fellow contestant Marla Duran.
During the fifth episode, in which designers had to create a party dress for Nicky Hilton, Daniel Vosovic referred to her as "Dirty Diana" because of the way she danced at the party.
In the finale, Chloe Dao picked Diana to help with the final challenge of designing an additional garment. Diana, who helped popularize the term "Fashion Nerd," earned top honors at Yahoo!"s "Hack Day"
The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures.
The device was created by Diana Engineer, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy, pictured to the right along with the device. Engineer"s book, Fashion Geek: Clothes Accessories Technical is a DIY book that teaches how to make electronic fashions published by North Light Books.
Diana Engineer holds an Amateur Radio licence with the call-sign KC2UHB and has made instructional ham-radio videos.
In March 2010, she joined the ARRL Public Relations committee. In February 2010, she held a one-woman fashion show at Eyebeam entitled "The Fairytale Fashion Collection" featuring garments with EL wire, LEDs and various sensors. In 2013, she was featured in Cable News Network"s The Next List where she demonstrated her use of integrated conductive thread that enables a dress to light up without any traditional wiring.
In this episode, Diana Engineer was filmed shopping for inspiration at CJS Sales in the garment Center of New York City.
