Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update - 03/18/05
UPCOMING EVENTS:
● March 23, 2005 -
Nomination deadline for 2005 ISPE Awards. More information and nomination forms
can be found on the ISPE web site at
http://home.rmci.net/ispe/awards.htm
● April 14 - 16, 2005 -
ISPE Annual Meeting, Pocatello, Idaho
● July 7 - 9, 2005 - NSPE
2005 Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois
NOMINATION
DEADLINE FOR 2005 ISPE AWARDS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 23, 2005!
It's not too late to submit your nominations for the 2005 ISPE Awards. Awards
include the Idaho Engineering Hall of Fame Award, Idaho Excellence in
Engineering Award, Idaho Excellence in Engineering Educator Award, and Young
Engineer of the Year Award. Award criteria and nomination forms can be found on
the ISPE web site.
Self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. Awards will be presented during
the 2005 ISPE Annual Meeting at the Holiday Inn in Pocatello.
2005 ENGINEERING OUTLOOK INDEX SURVEY
Take part in NSPE's
Engineering Outlook Index Survey 2005. Share your views on current issues
affecting the practice of engineering. The survey takes about 10 minutes to
complete, and results will be reported in Engineering Times and at the 2005 NSPE
Convention.
FREE ONLINE SEMINAR
The NSPE/IEEE web seminar (audio and PPT) from June 2004 addressing the Offshore
Outsourcing issue is available on the NSPE web site, FREE for members. Follow
the link from
http://www.nspe.org/govrel/gr-home.asp.
MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next week's
edition of the Friday Update!
St. Patrick's Day Math
Thursday, March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day when more people than usual will wear
some article of green clothing. Patrick decided to go all out and found his
leprechaun hat that looks like a tall, green top hat. The main portion of the
hat is a cylinder that is 8 inches tall and has a 3-inch radius. He then figured
that he could fill this portion of the hat with small gold coins (that are
actually chocolates) and walk around giving "the treasure at the end of the
rainbow" to all of his friends on St. Patrick’s Day. The chocolates in one bag
of candy takes up about 20 cubic inches of space. What is the least number of
these bags Patrick will need to completely fill his hat?
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Margaret painted a mural for St. Patrick’s Day and mixed her own green paint.
She used a ratio of 3 parts yellow to 2 parts blue to mix the paint. Maureen
wanted to also paint a mural with the same green color, but she currently has 8
cups of green paint that is a mixture of 40% yellow paint and 60% blue paint. In
order to get the same shade of green as Margaret, how many cups of yellow paint
must she add to her mixture?
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Let’s now take a look at the word GREEN. There’s not too many real words that
can be made from the letters in GREEN. For this problem, though, let’s see how
many distinct ways we can arrange the five letters in the word GREEN, even if
they don’t form real words. But let’s also add a restriction: any arrangement
must keep the two Es together. How many such arrangements exist?
Answer to last week's JETS Challenge problem:
answer = 5.81 kg of Mercury
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://www.jets.org/latestnews/Challenge%2014%20%97%20The%20%20Challenge%20of%20the%20Mercury%20Vapor.pdf
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