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Kate Morrical is the digital design manager for Robert Silman Associates, a structural engineering firm with offices in New York; Washington, DC; and Boston. She is also president of AUGI (Autodesk User Group International). Here we ask her 5 questions about AU and the role it has played in her professional development.
How would you describe your career path?
My career path has been fairly traditional in some ways, and very nontraditional in others. I entered college as a structural engineering major, and never wavered from that. I also talked my way into some internships at design firms even before I started college, when I knew absolutely nothing about engineering…so they gave me CAD work instead. I quickly got hooked on the technology, and when I landed my first engineering job out of school I also got involved with CAD standards development and implementation, and later, with Revit. One of my…