Title :
Control Engineering and the Professional Societies: The Early Days in International Context
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. & Syst., Open Univ., Milton Keynes, UK
Abstract :
By the time control engineering emerged as a coherent body of knowledge and practice (during and just after WW2) professional engineering societies had existed for many decades. Since control engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of the profession, new sections devoted to control were quickly established within the various existing technical societies. In addition, some new bodies devoted specifically or primarily to control were established. This brief paper will present in outline the history of how control engineering as a distinct branch of engineering became represented in technical societies or their equivalent in the USA, UK, USSR, Germany and France.
Keywords :
control engineering; professional aspects; social aspects of automation; societies; control engineering; profession interdisciplinary branch; professional engineering societies; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control engineering; Control systems; History; Industrial control; Instruments; Manufacturing industries; Professional societies; Servomechanisms;
Conference_Titel :
History of Technical Societies, 2009 IEEE Conference on the
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5119-7
DOI :
10.1109/HTS.2009.5337840