23rd September 2010, 04:20 PM
If IFE has a worldwide membership of 12,000 compared to how many active engineers there are in the world, that is pathetic!!.....I can't find a figure for world 'engineer numbers but the US claims to have 1.5 million alone. If all the 12,000 members of IFE were American that would equal less than 1% of the total of just US engineeers. (An equivalant percentage membership for the IfA compared to the UK archaeological community would be about 60 members!!) Its kind of hard to see how a body representing a profession of 6000 persons in total (IfA figure) can aspire to a membership larger than the sum total...so maybe Jack unfair to compare like with unlike...
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