The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-27
AUBURN ENGINEERS IN GREAT DEMAND. IN ALL SE CT IO NS
School Has Turned Out 5000 Engineers, Who Are Now Scattered Everywhere,
 States WiImore


 Alabama not only has the oldest en- gineering school in the south. but the Alabama Polytechnic institute, which is the pioneer in this line of education, has turned out more tech nically trained men than any other institution in the southern states, &C., fording to information made pubic today by Prof. J. J. Wilmore, dean of the college of engineering at Auburn.
 More than 5000 men have been trained In engineering courses dur ing the 50 years of Auburn's history and nearly 1000 of these have com pleted the full four years course and have received diplomas In engineer Ing branches, according to figures compiled by Dean Wilmore. During the past session, more than 500 stu dents were enrolled at Auburn in en- gineering courses, and there were BOO in electrical engineering classes alone.
 Information received from West inghouse Electric company shows that Auburn has provided more tech nically trained men for the Nesting house company than any other. poly technic institute or university In the United States. Although this giant engineering corporation secures men from hundreds of the institutions throughout the United States and Canada. practically per cent of al the engineers employed have been Auburn men.
 Another surprising fact contained in the statement showed that even in periods of business and financial de- pression there has never been time when Auburn graduates have experi- enced any difficulty in securing good engineering positions immediately upon leaving the institution.
 Graduates in Demand
 As evidenced by the universal rec ognition of Auburn's standing as an engineering school, Dean Wilmore called attention to the fact each spring representatives of the great est corporations in America come to Auburn to secure men for their en- gineering projects. Among those which have representatives make an nual visits and employ Auburn en- gineering graduates are the General Electric company, the Westinghouse Electric company. Southern Bell Tele- phone and Telegraph company American Telephone and Telegraph company, the Alabama Power com pany and many other smaller corpo- rations.
 While Auburn trained engineers are among the leaders in great in- dustrial enterprises in Mexico, India China, South America, Japan, Canal Zone, Africa, Hawaiian islands and in the great industrial centers of America like Pittsburgh. Schenectady, Buffalo, Montreal. Toronto and Cleveland, the vast majority of Au- burn men remain in Alabama. Dean Wilmore cited figures showing that nearly 1000 technically trained Au- burn men were now engaged in work in the Birmingham and Alabama in- dustrial districts alone, many of them having played an important part in the development of the resources of the state.
 Auburn's engineering college not only is recognized as a leader by the industrial world, but this insti- tuition has the same rank in the educational circles, due to the stan dards maintained for half a cen tury in the department of engineer ing, according to Dean Wilmore. In substantiation of this fact attention was called to the fact that Auburn has the only chapter of the national engineering honor society. Tau Beta Pi, that has been established south of Kentucky. Chapters of this so- ciety are granted only to institutions of the highest rank after the most thorough investigation of the stan dards of engineering work. The I,c- trical engineering honor society. Eta Kappa Nu. has . chapter at Au- burn, the only chapter in the state
 Student branches of the national engineering and technical societies are in active operation.
 Dean WiImore calls attention to the recent survey made by the United States department of education which said in part regarding the Auburn engineering college:
 The engineering curricula at the Alabama Polytechnic institute are standard in scope. The long list of prominent engineering alumni in- dicates that the authorities of the Alabama Polytechnic institute have been unusually successful in making tho work in engineering vital and practical"