Requirements for admission and transfer

The rapid growth of the Institute during the last few years has necessarily more directly affected the work of the Board of Examiners than that of any other group engaged in A. I. E. E. activities. Forty-two hundred applications were considered during the year ending April 30, 1926, of which one hundred and forty-four were direct admissions and two hundred and fifty-six were transfers to the grade of Member or Fellow. Each of these latter four-hundred cases were reviewed through the careful examination of the complete professional records as submitted by the applicants and the weighing of the statements of the references. Many cases are of course easily disposed of because of the unquestionable eligibility of the applicants to the grades for which the applications are made. The Examiners have found, however, that there is a considerable group, composed of doubtful cases, and it is this group that requires a large part of the Board´s time. Many of these cases are doubtful apparently through the failure of the applicants to devote sufficient time and effort to the submission of their records and references.