Abstract :
The American association for the advancement of science aims to promote the advance of all branches of scientific work. I t has a section devoted to Engineering Science, with which the following engineering societies are affiliated, each of them having representation in the Council of the A. A. A. S. and in the section committee: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The American Institute of Electrical Engineers, The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, The American Society of Civil Engineers, The Illuminating Engineering Society, and The American Society for Testing Materials. Many of the other sections of the Association, of which there are now fifteen, represent scientific fields in which engineers are vitally interested.
