Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-03-01 | Page 38 | Engineers Confab Holds Skills Survival Factor

Engineers Confab Holds Skills Survival Superior and prior scientific and engineering skills to offset superiority superiority superiority of numbers wh which ch free nations nations nations na na- na- na of the world lack may be the deciding factor in survival of the thc United States as a free Democracy In a world-wide world struggle That was the consensus of a wide nation joint engineering council Houston Tex at a convention of American Society Society Society So So- of Civil Engineers Milton T. T Wilson Tilson Salt Lake engineer and member of A AS S C E board of dIrectors di directors dl- dl rectors said here Thursday after his return from the thel meeting Mr Wilson Vilson said a good part of I Ithe the three-day three convention was devoted devoted de de- j de-j voted to effective utilization of engineers in the national emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency and drafting recommendations on how such a program may maybe maybe be bc best administered in the interests interests interests inter inter- ests of national security and economy Emphasizing th the point of needed skills and nothing that a second factor of the councils council's consideration tion was the expectation that by 1954 there will be a cumulative shortage of more than engIneering engineering engineering en en- I students in the nation Mr Wilson Vilson from quoted a convention convention conven conven- tion lion report as follows The Thc military must be supplied with and trained to use weapons always more powerful and more effective than the best the enem enemy can provide pro This implies as a consideration therefore the most effective and organization organization organization or or- of skills now existing in inthe inthe inthe the military and industrial groups and the protection of the Ule latter from less Jess efficient use in the military military military mili mili- tary forces as a result of haphazard haphazard haphazard hap hap- hazard application of methods now i in effect The engineering b council is made up of representatives of American Institute of Electrical Engineers American Society of Mechanical Engineers American Society for Engineering Education American Society of Mining J and Metallurgical Metallurgical Metal Metal- Engineers and the Ute American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean Institute of Chemical Engineers Engineers Engineers En En- as well as the civil engineers en en-