Design Insights

DFMA Engineering is a return to my roots. During my senior year of high school, I was torn between becoming a professional musician and an engineer. Ultimately, I decided to pursue engineering, and I was accepted at North Carolina State University to begin in the fall semester of 1983. That summer, before I headed off to Raleigh, I worked as a drafter for an engineering company in my hometown of Boone, North Carolina. Homebuilders would come in and have out-of-the ordinary designs or construction problems that needed structural review and analysis. Our licensed professional engineer would do the analysis, I would draft the design (paper and pencil in those days), then the engineer would seal the drawing with his stamp and signature. I thought that this was a pretty interesting job as a