TThe Society’s approach to ‘Engineers’ and Engineering,” eloquently defined by (Late) Dr. B. N. Dey in his Presidential address in Annual General Meeting in 1954 has been the Chief aim of the India Society of Engineers. The cause of the working engineer and his spirit, his ideas, his aspirations has been the main endeavour of India Society of Engineers. In the Words of (Late) Dr. Dey:
“Engineering to-day has developed into the Arts and Science of total human operation on the material resources along pre-determined lines to reach pre-calcutaled objectives. Engineering to-day has brought about a revolutionary development in the whole mode and pattern of human efforts in making hamessing more and still more out of natural forces. In Engineering we evidence a unique combination of functional science and operational art. An Engineer a planner, a designer, an erector and at the sametime a watchful foreman or supervisor of his own performance. But the problems of engineering profession are complex and manifold. Equally complex and manifold are the worries and anxieties of the working engineer.”
The above concern and anxieties of (Late) Dr. Dey, an eminent and illustrious engineer of the day, finds expression in the memorial lecture, being organised by the Society (Since 1969) every year, normally, at its Annual General Meeting and Convention, to honour and commemorate the legacy handed down to us by. (Late) Dr. Dey following eminent engineers/industrial administrators delivered Dr. B. N. Dey Memorial Lectures.