Engineering Conference

An economic conference for engineers will be held this summer, from August 30 through Labor Day, September 7, at the engineering camp of Stevens Institute of Technology in northern New Jersey. President Harvey N. Davis of Stevens in issuing the preliminary outline of the program for the conference announced that the engineering alumni of Columbia University and the alumni of Stevens, under whose joint auspices the conference will be, will welcome to the camp graduates of other colleges and junior members of the national engineering societies. The hours for lectures, conferences, and roundtable discussions by some of the leading economists and engineers of the country are to be scheduled so as to permit the men in camp to mjike full use of the camp's unusually good facilities for land and water sports. The serious part of each day's program will have two main elements: in the morning the lectures and discussions will deal with "The Dollar Factor in Engineering," or "Technique in calculations involving money;" at the open forum and round table discussions in the evening, elements in depression, seasonal and cyclical fluctuations will be considered. The Carnegie Corporation, on the recommendation of the American Association for Adult Education, has endorsed the project through a grant of $1500. Further information may be secured from Dean R. R. Marsden, The Thayer School, Hanover, N. H.