Our Exciting Profession: Address at the Summer Convention, Knoxville, Tenn., June 7, 1956

The profession of civil engineering is as old as the crudest shelter built unknown centuries in the past to protect our forebears against their foes and the elements . This profession is as new as atomic fission itself, if only because of the new materials, methods, problems, and power sources which will come with the Atomic Age. For the civil engineer is a builder, a constructive builder, the provider of structures and facilities for the better living of his fellow man.