Can engineers be synchronized?

CAN ENGINEERS be synchronized? Can they be persuaded to pull together, to co-operate, to pool their talents and resources in an orderly, organized effort to attain common objectives outside their several fields of specialized technology? In spite of appearances and experience to the contrary, many of us believe they can be so persuaded, and because we believe, we persist in our endeavor to find the right formula and to supply the requisite leadership. Those of us who participated in the discussions held at Section, District, and general meetings of the Institute some three years ago were tremendously encouraged by the interest and response of our own Institute members and by their evident willingness to relinquish some of the Institute´s autonomy for the sake of forming an over-all organization of the engineering profession.