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An #engineer’s worth can be measured in many ways: years of licensure, number of graduate degrees, number of junior staff managed, number of successful product designs, number of units manufactured per annum, number of faults per a thousand operating hours, amount of revenue generated per annum, amount of savings attained per unit, etc. But there is one very important engineering performance metric that is rarely discussed: number of successful #legal disputes (either on the plaintiff side or on the defendant side) in which the engineer was forced to participate, as a data purveyor, as a technical advisor, or as an expert witness. And this crucial skill is always acquired on-the-job, because it cannot be taught in a classroom.