Abstract :
President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, it is announced, has appointed a committee of alumni of the Engineering Schools to study from the practising engineer´s point of view some of the present problems relative to engineering training and research as regards professional duty and opportunity in this connection. The committee, which will report to President Butler, is headed by Milton L. Cornell of the class of 1905. The other members are Daniel E. Moran, C. E., 1884, consulting engineer; Arthur S. Dwight, M. E., 1885, consulting engineer, Gano Dunn, E. E., 1891, president of the J. C. White Engineering Corporation; Francis Blossom, C. E., 1891, partner of Sanderson and Porter; Harris K. Masters, M. E., 1894, formerly president of the Engineering Alumni Association; Henry C. Carpenter, E. E., 1899, general manager, New York Telephone Company; Richard E. Dougherty, C. E., 1901, engineering assistant to the president of the New York Central Lines; Darwin S. Hudson, C. E., 1901, construction engineer, Consolidated Gas Company; David M. Myers, M. E., 1901, consulting mechanical engineer; Elihu C. Church, C. E., 1904, consulting engineer; Milton L. Cornell, C. E., 1905, president of the Cornell Iron Works, Inc.; John J. Ryan, E. E., 1909, engineer, New York Edison Company; Roy U. Wood, Met. E., 1914, assistant treasurer, Research Corporation; Frederick W. Jewett, Chem. E., 1918, consulting engineer; Stephen P. Burke, Chem. E., 1920, director of Research Laboratory.
