Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Presidential address [1955] - The professional engineer in a planned economy
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 27, no. 4-5, Apr-May 1955, pp. 95-98
- Description
Retiring President's address by C. W. Candy, MIEAust, to the thirty-fifth Annual General Meeting of the Institution of Engineers Australia. (At Adelaide, on 3rd May 1955.)
- Abstract
This address encourages professional engineers, the profession and the Institution to become more aware of, and respond better to, a planned economy. Within a planned economy, more and more engineering services are provided by salaried engineering staff working within government, semi-government and municipal agencies. Primary producers, manufacturers, municipal councils and numerous pressure groups combine to demand more and more free scientific and engineering services, and as a consequence there is an ever-increasing concentration of engineers working within public service agencies. Free services do not lead to public esteem. Furthermore, the Institution and its members are not making a significant open contribution to issues in the public sphere, and therefore remain largely unknown, and of little value to the public. There is a need for a corporate vision for the Institution to address these issues.