Henry Towne: Helping The American Society Of Mechanical Engineers

Frederick Taylor provides a good example -- first he was inspired by Henry Towne’s paper in 1886, later he shared his own ideas through papers before the ASME, and still later as ASME president he funded Morris Cooke to study the administrative effectiveness of the ASME (which no doubt influenced Cooke’s career in governmental service organizations). The reasons for activity in professional organizations should be evident to any real professional, but this question can be used as a springboard for emphasizing this need to students.
Henry Towne was instrumental in helping the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) by publishing reports and getting different opinions from other people, therefore, opening up a dialog between different