Of current interest : Ge engineers act on professional organization

Meeting December 18, 1946, to discuss the organization of the engineering profession, approximately 280 members of the Schenectady (N. Y.) General Electric Engineers´ Association expressed their overwhelming support for a course of action similar to “Plan B” described by the professional activities subcommittee of the AIEE committee on planning and co-ordination in the April 1946, issue of Electrical Engineering, pages 169–73. Ninety-nine per cent of the group attending the meeting favored the rapid formation of a national society to raise the professional and economic status of all engineers, a society which would supplement the technical activities of the existing societies. The following report was prepared for Electrical Engineering by G. E. Walter (A ´44) of the AIEE Schenectady Section, who is chairman of the national association and legislation committee of the SGEEA.