The qualities of a profession: As outlined in a recent address delivered before American Engineering Council

IN 1937, at Milwaukee, I attempted an analysis of the organization of the engineering profession.^∗ Here I wish to develop that theme somewhat and I intend to trace briefly the relationship of engineering to the other professions, the professional traditions which engineers inherit, and the outlook for the engineering profession in view of its unique relationship to society. I plan to review the history of professions very sketchily; but through this history runs a thread to which I wish especially to direct your attention.