Of current interest: War-production conference, first of series, held at Newark, N. J.

At the request of the War Production Board, American engineering societies are holding a series of war-production conferences “to exchange, examine, and disseminate information and experience on the engineering and management aspects of war-production problems, and the changeover of plants and equipment to war production.” The first conference was held May 29, 1942, at Newark, N. J.; it was sponsored jointly by the local sections of 14 technical and engineering societies, including the AIEE New York Section, and the New Jersey Council. Approximately 750 attended. Other conferences, sponsored by other local engineering groups, are being held in other sections of the United States. Each conference is being arranged to fit the particular needs of the area in which it is held, and the discussion leaders come from war plants in that area.