>> I would say you could definitely get by with a Masters.
Some of our principals and leaders within our company only have a Masters.
You definitely have to have a professional engineering license so setting yourself
up to take the FE and then the PE because some courts will not accept you
as an expert if you don't have your license.
So engineering is very technical by nature.
And they're asking you as an expert for your expert opinion on things
that are very technical, but you have to be able to explain that to a lawyer.
And then you have to explain it to a jury.
And a lot of jurors, you know, they say not even a high school education.
You know, try and explain this to a middle school or.
I'm like okay.
How do I explain acceleration?
You know, so you come up with different ways and tasks of trying to simplify it
without dumbing it down and losing the science in it.
So that's definitely a skill that you have to have is being able to effectively communicate.
Definitely the PE license.
And then in terms of other associations, I've been a member of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers or ASME, the Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE,
as well as SWE, the Society of Women Engineers.
I've been members of those associations since undergrad so since I was at UNC Charlotte.
After that, I also joined a couple more specific: the American Society of Biomechanics
as well as that the BMES, the Biomedical Engineering Society.
So within those groups, it gives you an opportunity to serve
on different standards committees, especially SAE.
And then that also shows that you're an expert in the field and you're accepted
in the community as an engineer, as an expert.
So a lot of that also helps with getting you admitted as an expert in the court.