The Institute is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the granting of it's Coat of Arms, which incorporates an albatross with lightning in it's beak as a symbol of control concepts. The albatross extracts energy from sea-waves and the varying airflow above them, in order to sustain flight indefinitely by locking their vast wing span in the open position allowing them to glide for hundreds of miles, touching land only for the necessity of breeding with it's life partner. With this metaphor and celebration of Measurement & Control in mind, the President kindly asks that members consider the following report and send in any helpful comments or suggestions to the Institute.

How did you get your professional qualifications in instrumentation and control? Would you like to help your peers get theirs? Would you like to participate in the Institute’s activities as a professional qualifying body? Would you like to join those members who volunteer their professional experience and expertise so that the currency of the professional qualifications which you hold is maintained? How could you do so?