Lydia "Rose" Gould Weld (1878 – January 5, 1962) was one of the first women to graduate with an engineering degree from any college in the United States and the first in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Weld's traveled south for the winters; spent summers in Cape Cod and spending time in Virginia on the James River by houseboat.

She began at MIT in 1898 where she learned blacksmithing and locomotive design while completing a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

Upon graduating in 1903, Weld got a job as a draughtsman in the engineering division of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.

Until 1917 Weld taught Sunday school for St. Paul’s Episcopal in Newport News, and in California she got involved in the League of Women Voters.