Why the Engineer?

The new conditions of life brought about by the material advances of recent times, which have been achieved primarily as a result of the work of scientists and engineers, have brought with them new and pressing problems, social, economic, political, and international. In this address,* Doctor Durand states that ``we (engineers) cannot evade the responsibility which rests upon us to take our due share, even the lead, in the study of the problems which our own activities have, in a large measure, developed.'' He urges ``a quickened sense on the part of the engineer, of his responsibilities, not alone in a purely professional sense, but as a citizen of his community, of his state, of his country, of the world.''