The Washington herald., 1922-02-01
TWOCTTIE HAVE
FEDERATlONS OF
TECHNICAL MEN
Detroit Has Federation; !;
Scientech Club at r'
Indianapolis.
WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY. 1. 1872.

Members OF wsshington's fifty o,
more scientific and technical 40.
cieties will be interested in learn
ing how scientists and engineers q
other cities are federating.
The following paragraphs, IN.
FIRST from a recent number Of En-
gineering Ne~s-Record ana IN,
other from q recent number OF
Chemical and Metsllurgicsl En-
cheering. give details OF actiyitie,
In Indianapolis and Detroit:
-Organized on the basis Of enter
taining themselves with their own
, talent the 100 members OF the Scien-
tech Club have held together long
enough TO be . fixture in Indian
apoits. II has an attendance Of
about thirty each Monday noon at
luncheon. As in the Rotary Club
those who do not attend once in
four consecutive meetings are au-
tomatically dropped from member
ship and membership includes en-
gineers. architects and chemists.
all technical men regardless OF
classification. A strict time scheo-
ule is adhered 70. They meet at
1878, allow Is minutes for as
sembling and fifteen minutes for
introductions, in which various
stunts are employed. as introducing
by first name and by business, get
ting as much fun out OF IL as pos
sible. The remaining forty-nve min
utes are devoted TO discussions
usually Of an economic nature bear
ing on the relation of the profe.-
sion TO public welfare. No one not
a member may address the club
| nj % ~.
tors. Once a month a shop talk IS
given by one of the members who
usually discusses the business or
some interior problem Of his own
| organization. A mimeogrsphed
weekly news letter contains reports
OF the previous meetings and run
ming comment on current technical
events
After several years Of Thought
and discussion along similar lines.
the movement for the affiliation OF
the architectural. engineering and
| other technical societies OF Detroit
was taken up seriously in June,
l1s2l, by the organization OF
temporary council composed OF two
delegates from each OF the several
societies interested. The afiliation
has become an accomplished fact.
taking effect January /. 1922, by the
ratification Of the proposed consti-
tuition and bylaws, acceptance Of
membership and election OF council
lors by the following twelve So
cieties: Detroit Section, American
Society OF Civil Engineers; Detroit
Chapter. American Association OF
Engineers; Michigan Chapter. Amer
ican Society OF Heating and Ventl-
lating Engineers; Detroit Post. So
ciety OF American Military Engi-
neers: Detroit Section. American
Society Of Mechanical Engineers.
Detroit Ann Arbor Section, Ameri-
can Institute Of Electrical EnEi-
neers: American Institute OF Chem
ical Engineers: Detroit Engineering
Society: American Chemical Society
and Detroit Chemists: Michigan
Chapter. American Institute or
Architects: Detroit Section, Michi-
gan Society OF Architects: Detroit
I Chapter, American Society for Steel
Treating.
The Associated Technical Societies
Of Detroit will provide one meeting
each month which will be under the
management OF one OF the member
societies. This member society will
provide the speaker on a broad sub
ject Of interest TO the members OF
all the technical societies"