Engineering Associates

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28414, 22 October 1957, Page 12

Engineering Associates

The Engineering Associates Bill extends legislative recognition to a group of persons whose importance grows with the| expansion of the service of machinery to the community The bill provides for the registration and control of a middle group of persons in engineering and allied occupations who have substantial practical experience in positions of responsibility in connexion with engineering W’orks, but do not possess the qualifications necessary for registration under the Engineers Registration Act, 1924. The pattern of a number of acts which provide for the registration and discipline of members of a trade or profession is follow’ed in the bill. It is

recognised overseas that advances in engineering techniques are calling for more and more men trained in new skills. The most advanced industrial communities—the United States, j Russia, and Britain—are expanding technical training in all fields, recognising that it is useless to develop new techniques unless there are sufficient technicians competent to operate them. Indeed, as electronics and atomic energy move into their places in industry, so highly’ skilled operating tech nicians become as necessary as qualified engineers and scientists. Encouragement to men to qualify for a definite status m the engineering field, and protection of that status, can hardly fail to be useful.