Institute activities: Some jobs to be done — A message from the president

As a matter to which some special attention should be given during the 63rd year of our AIEE activities, I wish to bring to your attention the problem of the industrial electrical engineer, a problem with which I have been struggling for some 30 years. The Institute has done a great deal for the industrial electrical engineer, but our field of industrial activity has expanded so greatly that we now need to make special efforts to cover that field adequately. Rather than to default in our opportunity, and allow the industrial electrical engineers to branch out into a separate organization, as others have done in the past, let us do something now to serve the needs of this particular group. The AIEE local Sections are in the best position to do something about this matter. They are close to the industrial areas, and I believe that they could determine very readily the peculiar problems, needs, and interests of the industrial groups.