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Just seems like something that professionals would do! You wouldn’t let an aerospace engineer wire up a flight controller, but I guess grad students are cheap :

• neel_k 8y ago
  Grad students are actually more expensive, because they're slower and more likely to mess up than a pro would. However, you still want the grad students to do it. A successful experimental physicist needs to have a deep feeling for how their experimental apparatuses work, including all the grungy real-world details that theoretical models don't cover. You get that feeling by building and using the tools, and since the point of being a grad student is to learn how to be a successful experimental physicist, they've got to be the ones who build the tools!