An Engine for Change - A Chronicle of the Engineering Council

A CHRONICLE OF THE ENGINEERING COUNCILThe Armorial Achievement of the Engineering Council(The Latin motto “Ingenio Doctrina et Arte” translates as“with Ability, Knowledge and Skill”)The arms on the shield depict suns, representing energy duly chained, and thus controlled for thebenefit of humankind. The crest is a male gryphon, anciently a creature associated with the sun. Themale version is peculiar to English heraldry and emits sparks of fire or energy from its body. Thegryphon holds a wheel as an allusion to the antiquity of engineering. The heraldic beasts shown assupporters, two pantheons with rayonny coronets about their necks, were held from the 15 th Century tolive among the stars as creatures of the universe, and thus they symbolize the universality ofengineering and its dependence on energy.© Engineering Council UK 2004