Engineers’Guild

Gunston B. (1986) World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Guild Publishing, London. 

Japan has a long tradition in the fermentation industry to produce rice wine sake and a variety of fermented foodstuffs such as fermented soy sauce shoyu . Before introduction of modern science and technology at the end of the last century, engineer s guilds in the brewing manufacturers had established a sophisticated system of rational technologies, even empirically. The best example is the sake brewing process, in which saccharification of rice starch by amylases... 

To establish engineering practice as a true learned profession, similar in rigor, intellectual breadth, preparation, stature, and influence to law and medicine, with extensive post-graduate education and a culture more characteristic of professional guilds than corporate employees. 

Furthermore, we can hardly claim that a new exclusionary organization for the betterment of those who happen to be engineers is any greater boon to mankind than a racist construction union or an elitist medical guild. The problem is not to improve our relative position within an anachronistic and barbaric system, but to abolish the system. ... 

The third and lowest tier of the profession is that of Engineering Technician (Eng.Tech.). Until 1984 this route of entry required that candidates were at least 21, had an academic qualification of a standard not lower than an ONC or a City and Guilds Part II final technician certificate, and a minimum of three years engineering experience of which two must have been devoted to practical training. Under the current system there is again a three-stage process of registration. The... 

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