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AT the beginning of his presidential address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers delivered on October 21, Sir George Lee re-echoed Sir Alexander Gibb's suggestion, given in his address to the Institution of Civil Engineers last year, for closer co-operation and co-ordination between the various engineering institutions. The engineering industry is now so large that amalgamation between the various institutions, even if desirable, would be practically impossible. But he made two suggestions of directions in which cooperation should be easy and an advantage to industry. The first was that facilities might be given to members of one institution to attend meetings of other institutions, to hold joint meetings on subjects of common interest and to give special library facilities to all. The second was that the full implications of social science can best be handled from the engineering side by the combined efforts of all the engineering professions. To an increasing extent the lives of our people are bound up with engineering development, and the economics of our welfare are dependent to a large extent upon the rate of this development. The closer association and meeting of people who are interested in different phases of what is actually the same subject would facilitate the recognition of common interests and ideas.
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Co-operation between the Engineering Professions. Nature 140, 799 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140799a0
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