American engineering council

Meeting at Cornell University November 11–12, 1926, with its president, Dean Dexter S. Kimball, the Administrative Board of American Engineering Council weighed several of the outstanding national engineering problems. Important among its actions were decisions to assist in minimizing the volume of corporate reports, to assist in the Hoover plan for the development of a national policy for water resources, to sponsor a standardization program for street and highway safety signals, to continue its prosecution of the effort to secure a National Department of Public Works and Domain, to make further study of the proposed Standard State Mechanics Lien Act, to regularize patent procedure and urge a more adequate patent office building.