Abstract :
The author argues that the IEE, as Britain´s premier professional engineering institution, must continue to take the initiative in all areas of professional engineering life if it is to maintain its role into the 21st century. The tasks facing the IEE and the opportunities for service to the profession and the membership are challenging but not daunting and there is both Institutional and individual confidence that success will be achieved. The IEE has successfully grown and developed over the last 120 years, and will continue to do so in the 1990s. The major changes taking place in all of education, the restructuring of industry, the increasing significance of environmental and consumer protection issues, and the Europeanisation of the UK demand appropriate proactive strikes or reactive responses from the Institution
