Engineering — Science, industry, or labor?

IN the past there have been few ties between the engineers and the other professions, but for that matter, the engineers have not exhibited much coherence among themselves. Industry has used their services freely but logically has felt little responsibility in guarding their special interests. The engineers, on their part, have drawn heavily upon the several fields of science without feeling any strong impulse to act jointly with scientists in the development of general scientific interests. They are, in consequence of this peculiar relationship, literally and figuratively “in the middle.”