The age limit

OCCASIONAL objections are raised against the constitutional requirement that applicants for transfer from the grade of Associate to that of Member shall have reached the age of twenty-seven years. There was no restriction of this character in the constitution which was superseded in 1901. It was however found in practice, that young men were prone to apply for transfer immediately after graduation, and that the time of the Board of Examiners was occupied to an unnecessary extent in considering these applications which could not be recommended on account of lack of electrical engineering experience of a proper quality. It was recognized that there might be occasional exceptions to the rule, but they have proved to be exceedingly rare. Other engineering societies have fixed a similar limit at the age of thirty years.