Abstract :
The Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of ECPD (Engineers´ Council for Professional Development) was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 28–29, 1954, with headquarters in the Alms Hotel. The first day of the meeting was devoted to council business, meetings of the standing committees, presentation of reports, and election of officers. The second day of the meeting was devoted to a report of the Training Committee and panel discussions of the community project in professional development, which has been so successful in Cincinnati, and is headed by Professor Cornelius Wandmacher, (ASCE), through the co-operation of the University of Cincinnati, the engineering societies, and the local industries. President A. C. Monteith led off with introductory remarks, and was followed by Ernest S. Fields, chairman of the Cincinnati sponsor group, and Walter A. Draper, president of the Herman Schneider Foundation. The points of view of wellknown educators, the participating societies, and the local industries were expressed by speakers who comprised the panels. In the afternoon, a session was held on present and projected community projects in professional development. It is of intereet to note that James W. Parker, retired president of the Detroit Edison Company, was chairman of ECPD when the training program was initially launched and he was one of those who originally conceived the idea.
