ASME Transactions, Volume 41

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Page 179 - The payment to the employed of a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country. Fourth The adoption of an eight hours day or a forty-eight hours week as the standard to be aimed at where it has not already been attained.
Page 562 - Council for Professional Development, the recognized accrediting body of the engineering profession, composed of representatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the...
Page 58 - To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in order to secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, and stimulate progress; but in all cooperative undertakings to give encouragement to individual initiative, as fundamentally important to the advancement of science, 4.
Page 23 - for the furtherance of research in science and engineering or for the advancement in any other manner of the profession of engineering and the good of mankind.
Page 179 - Among these methods and principles, the following seem to the High Contracting Parties to be of special and urgent importance...
Page 57 - The National Research Council was organized in 1916 at the request of the President by the National Academy of Sciences, under its Congressional charter, as a measure of national preparedness.
Page 179 - The standard, set by law in each country with respect to the conditions of labour should have due regard to the equitable economic treatment of all workers lawfully resident therein.
Page 1086 - Education, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
Page 179 - Each state should make provision for a system of inspection, in which women should take part, in order to insure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the employed.
Page 1057 - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is administered by a Board of Award consisting of representatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The medal was executed by John Flanagan, of New York.

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