New Umbrella Society for Engineering is Taking Shape
by Kneeland A. Godfrey, Jr., (M.ASCE), Editor;Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1979, Vol. 49, Issue 5, Pg. 57-64
Document Type: Feature article
Abstract:
If all goes as planned (and the prognosis is good), 1980 will see the start of operation of a new umbrella society in engineering. The joint creation of many engineering specialty societies including ASCE, it will be named American Engineering Council. In a sense a rebirth of an existing umbrella, the Engineers Joint Council, it will be much more�combining functions of that group plus the Engineers Council for Professional Development (college curriculum accreditor) and ACE (the Association for Cooperation in Engineering), an ad hoc group formed a few years ago to provide a forum for re-uniting societies once in the EJC. Here are highlights in the checkered history of engineering umbrella societies, a creation-of-AEC progress report, and discussion of a function (liaison with government) that the new umbrella may tackle more aggressively.
Subject Headings: Professional societies | Professional development | Joints | History and Heritage | Government | Engineering history | Curricula and extra curricula
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