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Assistant engineers are drawn from Civilian staff or the Royal Engineers, Artillery or line Officers. They were trained at [[Rorkee]]
New officer to India spend a year at Rorkee serving with the [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]] for a year to acclimatise and become linguistically fluent.
Rorkee housed:
*Headquarters for the Bengal Sappers and [[Royal Engineers ]] in Bengal
*Thomason College
*Foundry
*Quarter Master Course - seven month course
Appointments were town based for Military Building (including architecture), or remote and rural for those chosing the Irrigation, or Railwayspecialities. Some became member of the Survey DeptThose with a particular interest in architecture were encouaged to specialise there was a great demand for [[architect]]s.
==FIBIS Resources==
Hugh Wilding, "M.I.C.E. in the branches: a family history work in progress" ''FIBIS Journal'' No 23 (Spring 2010), pages 28-38. M.I.C.E. stands for Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. An account of researching a civil engineer in the Public Works Department. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]
