Of current interest: First Pan American engineering congress held in Brazil; Upadi charter approved

The formal opening of the First Pan American Engineering Congress took place on the evening of July 15, 1949, at the Municipal Theatre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Several chiefs of delegations, including the Chairman of the United States delegation, S. S. Steinberg, Dean of Engineering at the University of Maryland, delivered addresses. The scheduled sessions of the Congress and its Commissions commenced the next day, lasting until July 20.