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Wanted: More Engineers in Public Affairs: The EJC Symposium on National Engineering Problems

At a precedent-making symposium, high United States government officials implored the engineering profession to be more active in national affairs relating to science and technology. They called for the engineers to articulate their technical insights and visions on proposed national goals and policies and to enter into government positions at all levels including the political. This is necessary, the government officials said, if wise and fruitful outlays for research and development are to be assured. Both the engineering and scientific communities were cited for being remiss in their attention to public policy; the engineers, however, were considered to be more aloof than the scientists from the processes that determine the nation's scientific and technological directions. The occasion for these observations was the Engineers Joint Council Symposium on National Engineering Problems, held January 12-14, 1964, in Washington, D.C. EJC, a federation of twenty-four national engineering societies, sponsored this symposium under the aegis of its Government Liaison Committee to explore national problems in engineering and the significance of science and technology in public affairs. The conference, held in conjunction with EJC's annual meeting, was attended by more than one hundred society presidents, board members, and staff directors. For more than two days, the government officials impressed on them that science and technology represent dynamic forces that are dramatically affecting the country and influencing the government's own goals and responsibilities. They described Washington's attempts to manage and guide these forces and identified historical trends and problem areas that have arisen from the mammoth increases in national Research and Development (R&D) expenditures. This account reports on some of their numerous observations.

Function of the Dental Society Staff in the over-all Operation of a Budget Payment Plan

Function of the Dental Society Staff in the over-all Operation of a Budget Payment Plan

Medical association participation in solving school health problems.

SCHOOL HEALTH AS A STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ACTIVITY The nature of the relationships of local medical societies to other community groups concerned with child health is determined largely by the leadership that state medical associations provide. Practicing physicians initiate these community relationships and determine policies concerning them, but it is the medical society staff that must perform the many administrative duties that make these policies effective. Continuity is essential to effective long-term action by the profession in the community. The school health program is of great importance to physicians and their medical societies because it reaches all of the future citizens of the community during the formative years of their lives. Its success depends on cooperative relationships among practicing physicians and dentists, the several professions in public health and education, voluntary health agencies, and the organizations representing parents of school-age children. Practicing physicians and their medical societies have provided effective

THE DISSEMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION DISCOVERED IN ENEMY COUNTRIES

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