The importance of the National Congress

摘要

At the end of November last year, delegates from all engineering stakeholder groups from within Australia and overseas assembled in Canberra for the annual National Congress meeting of Engineers Australia. All disciplines of engineering were represented, together with geographic divisions and other groupings such as Women in Engineering and the very dynamic Young Engineers. It is now seven years or so since you determined, by ballot, to create the Congress in its current form and a smaller executive Council. As with any change, acceptance often occurs by degrees - some accept change quickly, others take longer.