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F. M. Feiker (M´34) executive secretary, American Engineering Council, has been appinted dean of the school of engineering, George Washington University, Washington, D. C. A native (1881) of Northampton, Mass., he received the degree of bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1904 and the honorary degree of doctor of engineering in 1938 from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After a year as research assistant at that institution, and two years of technical journalism with the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., he became technical editor and later managing editor of Factory, and in 1912 chairman of the editorial board of A. W. Shaw Company, Chicago, Ill., publishers of Factory and System magazines and of technical books. He joined the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, N. Y., in 1915, as editor of Electrical World, eventually becoming vice-president and editorial director of the company. He was assistant to the United States secretary of commerce 1921–22, operating vice-president of the Society for Electrical Development, New York, 1922–26, and managing director, Associated Business Papers, New York, 1926–30. He then became director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D. C., and from 1932 to 1934 directed the educational survey of the Textile Foundation, Washington. Since 1934 he has been with AEC. He is also a member of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.