Memorandum 72
Submission from Selig Finklaire
From Professional Engineering of 21 May 2008
I have read about your concerns as to the number of professional
institutions. My contribution is made as a retired Director Engineer
at Ministry of Defence.
Some of these established institutions have
long talked about merging, but individual interests have not allowed
any significant progress to be made.
To my mind the Royal Academy of Engineering
should become the equivalent of the General Medical Council, with
the other institutions forming specialist sections. It is after
all inconceivable in this day and age for professional engineers
to have only one discipline.
Once the Civils, Mechanicals, Electricals and
Chemicals had been persuaded to join the others would soon follow.
Chartered Engineers could then become "Ingenieurs"
as our European colleagues and so distinguished from those other
engineers who come for example to fix the washing machine. It
would remain only for those engineers with ability and foresight,
to study commerce, finance, and company management at post graduate
level for us in the UK to have Ingenieurs, as Chairmen and Chief
Executive Officers as in France, Germany, and Italy.
June 2008
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