Interdependence in the life of the professional engineer

I AM DEEPLY MOVED to be appearing before you at this Great Lakes District Meeting not only as a member of the Iowa Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers but also as President of the great professional engineering organization that we are representing. However, mingled with that feeling is one of pride that our Iowa Section is privileged to serve as host again to a District Meeting of the Institute, for it portrays the kind of vigorous sponsorship that permeates our total membership. It represents an opportunity to bring a segment of the Institute to Iowa for the second time in recent years and the responsibility to invest some time and energy in our chosen profession. It represents an opportunity to keep AIEE members and others abreast of new developments in technology and the responsibility for bringing encouragement to younger engineers into whose hands new techniques begin to reside more universally by reason of their more rigorous and advanced technical training. In short it represents complete interdependence.