1. In
1946, the subordinate Engineers Association was formed by the qualified
service holders having certificates of upper subordinate course &
overseer course of 4 years duration and also
certificate from City & Guides, London.
2. Since
it was decided that Ahsanullah School of Engineering Dhaka would be
provided with a Degree Course on of Engineering, the students of
Diploma-in-Engineering classes demanded higher education.
3. The
Ahsanullah School of Engineering was renamed as Ashanullah Engineering
College with Bachelor Degree Course of 4 years duration in Engineering
after passing I, Sc. or H.S.C examination and the duration of
Engineering Diploma Course had been reduced to 3 years with the same
contents and renamed it as Licentiate in Engineering under Dhaka
University.
4. Provision,
however, had been made for those Diploma Engineers having an initial
qualification of Intermediate to undergo two and a half years schooling
in a condensed course to get the Bachelor Degree in Engineering.
5. Early
in 1955, 2 polytechnic Institutes were established by the Ford
Foundation in the then Pakistan, one in Karachi and the other in Dhaka,
with a duration of 3 years course according to the syllabus of Oklahoma
State University, Still water, USA. The certificate issued by the then
Technical Education Board was Associated in Engineering having provision
to undergo B.S course in USA and also in U.K.
6. The
students of Ahsanullah Engineering College as well as Dhaka Polytechnic
Institute demanded higher education during the regime of the erstwhile
Government of Pakistan too.
7. Another
mammoth movement was lodged by the students of Polytechnic Institutes
and other Technical Institutes, established by that time, for higher
studies. The authority stopped the previous condensed course in
Engineering College with a plea that Diploma Engineers may undergo
A.M.I.E. course conducted by the Institution of Engineers (Pakistan).
8. The
Diploma Engineers declined to accept the advice, as because of the fact
that, since its inception, the Institution of Engineers in Dhaka has
been playing the role of an Welfare Association of the Engineers having
bachelor degree. Still now, it is working as a bargaining agent to safe
guard the interest of its members with a character of yellow trade
unionism.
9. Continuous
endeavor and prolong movement of the Diploma Engineers, and students of
Diploma Engineering courses for higher studies in establishing the
dignity of institutional course was mercilessly dealt with by the Degree
Engineers because of their higher position in the administration.
Needless to mention here that persons holding bachelor degree in
engineering are more interested in administrative job than to their
original profession, i.e. a Degree Engineer in Bangladesh prefers to
become a Secretary of any Ministry rather than to contribute in the
relevant field for which the nation has produced him at the expense of
public money. The deprived and aggrieved diploma engineers, on the
country, dwelt on the issues in the perspective of the greater interest
of the country and debated for years together and ultimately decided
that they can no longer tie themselves with those bad practices of the
degree Engineers under the leadership of I.E.B.
10. At
last on 8th November 1970 the Diploma Engineers of the then East
Pakistan, now Bangladesh, established the Institute of their own under
the name and style as the East Pakistan Institute of Diploma Engineers,
now Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB).
