Chemical Engineers Called Best Paid in Field

Chemical engineers are the best paid in the profession, and civil engineers the worst, William F. Ryan '11, Engineering Manager of the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, said last night.

Ryan spoke on "The Engineers in Industry" at the fourth of the Conferences on Carcers--"The Sciences in Industry"--sponsored by the Office of Student Placement.

W. Deming Lewis '35, Assistant Director of Switching Research of Bell Telephone Laboratories, warned against "super-specialization" for physicists, because of the shifting importance of their fields of work. Deferment chances, he added, are "pretty good" for students of the applied sciences.

Speaking on industrial chemistry, Earl P. Stevens, president of Arthur D. Little Inc., said that the industry's doors are "open wide" to college graduates with B.A.'s in Chemistry.