VDI celebration commemorates 100 years of German engineering

THE VEREIN DEUTSCHER INGENIEURE (VDI) celebration in Berlin, Germany, was a great event. For the engineers of Germany it was the climax of a series of nation-wide programs held during 1956 declaring the achievements of 100 years of organized engineering in Germany. It also presented ideas to encourage at future anniversary commemorations even greater results in providing materials and devices, and in making engineers realize that it is their moral obligation to help provide for all people a better and happier living during the next engineering century by participation in activities relating to the philosophical, political, and spiritual guidance of the country. Visiting engineers from over all the world experienced a delightful revelation of German courage, accomplishment, and hospitality. It is well that AIEE and other United States engineering societies were represented by official delegates. Their absence would have been an opportunity lost to prove to engineers assembled there that United States engineers are deeply interested in working with others toward having engineering methods and devices used to raise material and ethical living standards to a level that will convince all men that win or lose, war means only destruction.