Abstract :
At a joint meeting of the boards of the 4 national engineering societies of civil, mining and metallurgical, mechanical, and electrical engineers, and the board of United Engineering Trustees, Inc., at Chicago, Ill., June 27, 1933, Dr. F. M. Becket, president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and president of the Union Carbide and Carbon Research Laboratory, New York, N. Y., urged that The Engineering Foundation consider the undertaking of engineering studies of broad social and economic import. Further, he pointed out the desirability of increasing the activities of the Engineering Societies Library. Doctor Becket´s statements follow:
