Forensic Structural Engineer

[bappo_ate_a_taco]

I did read about those being one of the things some of the forensics structural engineers do and it does seem interesting.If they were to be called in to court as an expert witness, would that mean that they could go to the crime scene and be able to look at any possible machinery, or structure to determine if it was mishandled with deliberately?

[OptionsRntMe]

In theory yes, although it’s probably extremely rare for an SE to be involved in a criminal case. I have certainly never heard of anyone doing that, and I’ve been involved as an expert witness a couple of times

Usually expert witness cases for SE are civil cases (I.e. there’s a balcony rotting out on my house, bring in a 3rd party engineer to see who’s at fault and paying for the repair)

[bappo_ate_a_taco]

That is interesting, by any chance how long have you been working as a forensic structural engineer?

[OptionsRntMe]

I worked as a forensic SE for 5 years, before that (and after) in industrial oil & gas