On Feb 18, 2006, at 12:17 AM, Geoff Stone DD&D Australia wrote:
> Apparently in North America the membership is ageing and as members
> fall off the perch no one else is joining.
Fact. The membership is aging, and positions in the society that were
once held by engineers in industry are being taken over by academics.
You can tell it instantly from the quality of the technical papers that
are being published, and it's starting to affect the quality of the
pressure vessel codes.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
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.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania1864)
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