Idaho State University Outstanding Engineer 2008
Nominations Sought
Idaho State University (ISU) College of Engineering is
accepting nominations for the tenth annual ISU Outstanding Engineer Award.
This award will be presented at the 2008 National Engineers Week Banquet,
which will be held at the Red Lion Hotel in Pocatello on Thursday, February
21.
Nominations are being sought from the Eastern Idaho engineering community.
The nomination packet is
here.
Selected faculty will review the nomination packets for completeness.
A selection committee comprised of ISU engineering student leaders, faculty,
alumni, and past recipients, will select the person to be honored at this
year’s banquet. The person(s) selected for the award should have
demonstrated sustained exemplary service in his/her engineering career, a
portion of which must have been in the State of Idaho. The criteria to be
used by the selection committee are included.
Nomination
packets should be received by Friday, February 8, 2008. The selection
committee will make their decision by Friday, February 15th, and the award
will be presented at the banquet on Thursday, February 21st. The honoree and
his or her companion will be guests of the College of Engineering at the
banquet.
Nomination
packets should be sent to:
ISU Outstanding Engineer
ISU College of Engineering
P.O. Box 8060
Pocatello, ID 83209
Questions may be addressed to Annie Havlicak at (208) 282-2969 or e-mail
havlann@isu.edu.
FUTURE CITY COMPETITION RECAP
The 4th Idaho Regional Competition was held on January 12th at Boise State
University with 16 teams competing from 14 different schools around Idaho,
Oregon, and Utah. The City of Techon comprised of home school students from
Boise took 1st Place in the competition. Their team members of Joshua Geis,
Conner Needham and Hayden Quilter along with teachers Elke Quilter and
Meichele Geis and engineer mentor Shaun Fielding from Toothman-Orton
Engineering will represent the Idaho Region at the National Future City
Finals in Washington D.C. February 16-21. Techon also won the Special Awards
for the “Best Management of Water Resources" sponsored by Strata, one of 13
Special Awards offered this year. Other Finalists from the 4th Idaho
Regional Competition were: 2nd Place - Okodomos - ID Distance Education
Academy (Boise); 3rd Place - Sibu - Emmett Jr. High; 4th Place -
Stratoutopia - Idaho Virtual Academy (Magic Valley); 5th Place - Abra -
Rolling Hills Public. Attached are photos of the winning team and their
model city of Techon. More results and photos can be found at the Idaho
Regional Future City website
www.futurecityidaho.org.
Thanks
again to the more than 90 volunteers, many of whom are ISPE members, and include
judges, engineer mentors and steering committee members. The number of sponsors
has more than doubled from last year to 22 professional organizations and
businesses!! This competition would be possible without the continued support of
the platinum sponsors who donated more than $500 including URS Washington
Division, ISPE SW Chapter, ASCE of Southern Idaho, Micron, HDR and especially
Boise State University who donates the venue each year. CH2M Hill, JUB, Doherty
and Associates, Keller Associates and Toothman-Orton Engineering have also
supported the program as it has grown the last few years. A special thanks goes
out to our new sponsors this year which include the University of Idaho, Strata,
Project Engineering Consultants, Kleinfelder, B&A Engineers, American
Geotechnics, Holladay Engineering, W&H Pacific, WTS Treasure Valley Chapter,
Lochner, and David Evans. If your business or organization is interested in
getting involved, please visit the ID Future City website, or email
sponsors@futurecityidaho.org.
Planning is already underway for next year's 5th Idaho Regional Competition and
the steering committee is always looking for new members. With snow on the
ground now, be sure to look for announcements on the Future City fundraiser golf
tournament in early May. Also, the Idaho Regional Future City Steering Committee
will be working extra hard this spring to recruit schools to participate next
year and needs your help! Please email
schools@futurecityidaho.org if
you have contact information for any middle school teachers or administrators
who might be interested in the Future City program. With curriculum requirements
and testing it has become harder for teachers to work extras like Future City
into their schedule. Informational packets include a professionally produced DVD
about the program are available and engineers are encouraged to bring awareness
of this program to your schools, teachers and children. More information is
available at www.futurecityidaho.org
and www.futurecity.org.
ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF ALL OF OUR
CURRENT SUSTAINING
ORGANIZATIONS:
AHJ Engineers, PC
B & A Engineers, Inc
Briggs Engineering Inc
Delta Engineering Group
Elkhorn Engineers
G & S Structural Engineers
J.M. Miller Engineering, Inc
J-U-B Engineers, Inc
Kittelson & Associates Inc
Land Solutions, Land Surveying & Consulting
Mason & Stanfield, Inc
Materials Testing & Inspection
MWH
Progressive Engineering Group, Inc
Quadrant Consulting, Inc
Rational Technology of Idaho, LLC
Riedesel Engineering, Inc
Schiess & Associates
Stapley Engineering
Terracon
TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc
Walker Engineering
Please consider joining these great companies in
becoming an
ISPE Sustaining Organization. ISPE offers the Sustaining
Organization category of membership to enhance the visibility of your commitment
to ISPE and the engineering profession. Your membership will allow us to better
serve the engineering community through promoting engineering and ethics, and
supporting the needs of the engineer including professional development.
If you are interested in becoming a
Sustaining Organization, please
contact the ISPE office at
ispe@idahospe.org.
MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next week's
edition of the Friday Update!
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Every year on the third Monday of January we celebrate Martin Luther King,
Jr. Day. Dr. King was a civil rights activist whose passion and leadership led
to great cultural changes in America.
On Aug. 23, 1963, 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial for
the “March on Washington,” and Dr. King made his famous “I have a dream…”
speech. The mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial is 5/8 of a mile long and ¼ of
a mile wide, and the Reflecting Pool is 2029 ft long and 167 ft wide. If all of
the participants stood on the mall but no one stood in the Reflecting Pool, and
everyone spread out evenly over the entire area, how many square feet did each
participant have? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
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The King Center is a 35-acre site dedicated to continuing Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s mission by educating the world about methods of non-violence, human
relations, service to mankind, and related teachings. Approximately 650,000
people visit The King Center annually. It is open 9am – 5pm, 7 days per week. On
average, how many people enter The King Center each hour? Express your answer as
a decimal to the nearest tenth.
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On November 2nd 1983, a bill was signed making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a
federal holiday. At the same time on January 21st, 2008, how many days will have
passed since the bill was signed? (Hint: Don’t forget leap year’s.)
Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:
First we have to find the difference between the number of voters seen in
2004 and the number of voters seen this year.
227,000 – 124,000 = 103,000 more voters in 2008
Now we divide the number of additional voters (103,000) by the number of voters
seen in 2004 (124,000) and multiply by 100 to find the percent of increase.
(103,000 ÷ 124,000) × 100 = 83.1%, to the nearest tenth
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Since 100% of the votes went to Vonda, Emma, Frank, or Bobby, we know that
Bobby’s 10 votes represent 25% of the total number of votes.
(100% - 10% - 35% - 30% = 25%)
Therefore we know the total number of votes was 40.
(0.25x = 10, so x = 40)
Now we need to figure out the number of votes the highest percentage of votes
represents and the number of votes the lowest percent of votes represents.
0.10(40) = 4 votes
0.35(40) = 14 votes
Now we can find the difference between the greatest and least number of votes.
14 votes - 4 votes = 10 votes
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From solving the previous question we know that Vonda received 4 votes and Emma
received 14 votes. Now we need to calculate how many votes Frank received during
the primary vote.
0.30(40) = 12 votes
Since a minimum of 2 votes would leave Frank and Emma in a tie, Frank needs a
minimum of 3 votes to beat Emma.
3 out of Vonda’s 4 votes is equal to 75% of Vonda’s votes.
(4x =3, x = 0.75)
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=1153&z=110
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