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... This new field had been thoroughly based in science and formal technical training from the start and thus did not have older professional traditions to accommodate. Like the chemical engineering profession that emerged somewhat later {professional society formed in 1908J, electrical engineering evolved from science toward technology, rather than the reverse, and was closely identified with the role of the corporate employee.
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... Just as electrical engineers were setting the pattern for modern professional engineering, their parent industry was establishing new standards for industrial production and management in its development of power generation, lighting, transportation, and communication systems. This industry t1)
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... But recognition of the benefits of standardization quickly spread to every industry, so much so that even standards-setting soon became unstandardized as dozens of corporations, trade associations, and professional societies formed standards for their industries. This situation led the professional societies of the civil, electrical, mechanical, and mining engineers to join with ASTM in 1916 in forming the American Engineering Standards Committee "forerunner of today's American National Standards InstituteJ.
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