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Founder Fellows
The Council of Engineering Institutions – News Release 10 June, 1976
Duke of Edinburgh to hold
inaugural meeting of fellowship of engineering
tomorrow.
The newly created Fellowship
of Engineering set up earlier this year by the
Council of Engineering Institutions (CEI) is to hold
its inaugural meeting at Buckingham Palace tomorrow
(Friday, 11 June) when some one hundred Founder
Fellows will be welcomed by the Duke of Edinburgh,
the Senior Fellow, who will preside.
Following an initiative from
Prince Philip some years ago, the Fellowship was
created by CEI to provide a means for the exchange
of opinion and specialist knowledge and to give
advice on national issues of the day which involve
engineering considerations. This nucleus of
influential and eminent chartered engineers will
thus be available to give guidance to the Government
and others on matters involving engineering
knowledge and experience.
It is intended that the
Fellowship will be accepted nationally and
internationally as a body with sufficient authority
to present the views of engineers free of sectional
interests and to cooperate with similar bodies a
home and overseas.
The creation of the Fellowship
was announced last February by Prince Philip when he
was president of CEI. He said that in fulfilling its
objectives the Fellowship would do much to raise the
standing and prestige of our engineers. Immediately
following Prince Philip’s announcement, 137
distinguished chartered engineers were invited to
become Founder Fellows. These were made up from
those who were currently Fellows of the Royal
Society together with a number of other eminent
engineers selected after consultation with the
Presidents of CEI’s fifteen member institutions.
Of those invited to become
Founder Fellows, 129 (see attached list) have now
accepted. Additional Fellows will be elected by the
Fellowship itself, eventually to a number not
exceeding 1,000 but mot more than 60 in any one
year.
After signing the Roll and
hearing an introductory statement from Prince
Philip, the Founder Fellows at tomorrow’s meeting
will discuss the work and the future role of the
Fellowship. An Executive Committee will be formed
under the chairmanship of Lord Hinton of Bankside
who, as CEI President, will provide a coordinating
link between the Fellowship and the CEI.
The Fellows will be expected
to participate fully in the work of the Fellowship,
and by giving it the benefit of their knowledge and
experience help to promote the status of
engineering.
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