INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

Evening Post, Volume 65, Issue 65, 17 March 1924, Page 7

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

The following letter has been received from London:— "The council of the Institution of Civil Engineers have recently notified all corporate members that under the new by-, laws approved by H.M. Privy Council in accordance with tho supplemental charter recently obtained, members and associate-members are, and aro entitled to describe themselves as, 'chartered civil engineers.' "In making the announcement, it is pointed out that whilst Ihe unregulated and umestik-ted use of tho appellation 'civil engineer' has deprived it of all weight and significance in the matter of professional qualifications-, the designation of corporate member of the institution (M. lust. C.E. or Associate M. Tnst. C.E.) has come to be recognised as -an authoritative mark of professional competence and standing. Nevertheless the nioro designation of membership of a society has been found it, ,-eccn(. years scarcely tv cany with il, i|, ;ll definite ide.s of status tv whirl, the public i, accustomed in doalin-.' with proio-=sinn--l men, hence the adoption of tbetenn mm ! aulhun^dtu mumble- of the iuslilutiyi, i uauieJi1,. 'euartoirea uvii .ensiuaera.' "