DON'T
MISS THE
2008 ISPE ANNUAL MEETING!!
The registration deadline is fast approaching
for the ISPE Annual Meeting. Don't miss this great opportunity to meet
with your fellow engineers.
Featured sessions include:
"Standard of Care for
Professional Engineers in Idaho"
This will include a brief presentation on
"Standard of Care" definitions/considerations; a roundtable discussion about
the status of "Standard of Care" with engineers from around the state who
review work of other Idaho engineers; the perspective from the Board of
Engineers; an open discussion with the audience, Board and Panel concerning
the status of the Standard of Care and any Next Steps by ISPE
"Idaho Board of Professional
Engineers & Professional Land Surveyors"
A discussion of the recent changes to the Idaho
Code that allow the Board to set continuing education requirements of
professional engineers and how the Board will assign any requirements.
This will be an opportunity for the professional engineering community to
ask questions of the attending board members as well as an opportunity for
the board members to gather input from the professional community.
Additional information on the meeting and a
registration form can be found on the
ISPE web site.
Don't delay, the early registration
deadline is May 23, 2008!
Thank you to all the participants and sponsors of this year's ISPE
SW Chapter MATHCOUNTS and Future City Golf Tournament! This year's
event on May 2nd at Purple Sage included a record 30 teams and 19 hole
sponsors raising $5,368.23!!! This money will go towards the awards, shirts
and additional costs associated with running the ISPE SW Chapter's
MATHCOUNTS program held each February as well as contributing to the 5th
Idaho Regional Future City Program to be held next January. Approximately
$20 from each golfer's entry fee will go directly to these programs along
with 100% of the hole sponsorship money.
The final results included:
1st Place Team - Washington Division URS Team of Kim Bissell, Rich Allen,
Earl Mitchell and Pete Bailey
2nd Place Team - Toothman-Orton Engineering Team of Rick Collingwood, Mark
Smith, Robin Thorne and Greg Moos
Closest to the Pin Winners - Paul Wakagawa (City of Boise) and Stan Ekegren
(Washington Division of URS)
Longest Drive Winners - Brock Gummer (Washington Division of URS) and Steve
Robison (Tamarack Grove Engineering)
Much of the tournament success is the result of the generosity of the hole
sponsorships from the following companies: American Geotechnics, B& A
Engineers, Blueprint Specialties/Capitol Copy and Print, Boise Office
Equipment, Centra Consulting, Geo Tek, HDR, J-U-B Engineers, Keller and
Associates, Kittelson and Associates, Materials Testing and Inspection, MWH,
Rational Technology, Strata, Terracon, Toothman-Orton Engineering Co.,
Transpo Group, Washington Division of URS and W&H Pacific. A special thanks
to JUB for the donation of 2 putters as well as CH2M Hill for the donation
of a logo mug, hat, and balls which were both raffled off with the other
door prizes.
Thanks again to all the golfers and sponsors. We hope to see you all again
next May and appreciate your continued support of this tournament and the
programs it supports.
IDEQ – ONSITE (INDIVIDUAL/SUBSURFACE SEWAGE DISPOSAL) WASTEWATER RULE
NEGOTIATED RULEMAKING
The Idaho DEQ is entering into negotiated rulemaking on the Subsurface
Sewage Disposal Rules. Attached is a copy of the proposed rules.
File “58103-0801notneg.pdf” is
the Notice of Intent to Promulgate Rules and is 2 pages
File “5801030801prelimdraft.pdf”
is the Preliminary Draft Negotiated Rule (Draft No. 1) Dated April 30, 2008,
and is 9 pages.
Those interested in participating in the negotiated rulemaking process are
encouraged to attend the following teleconference meetings to be held at
various locations Thursday, 22 May 2008, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm MDT (8:30
am to 3:00 pm PDT) and again on Thursday, 6 June 2008. The meetings will
take place simultaneously and will be connected by telephone. The addresses
of each location is shown in File “58103-0801notneg.pdf.”
Open house locations in the Mountain Time Zone include:
• DEQ State Office in Boise
• Central District Health Department’s McCall field office
• South Central District Health in Twin Falls
• DEQ Pocatello Regional Office
• Eastern Idaho Public Health District’s new office in Idaho Falls.
Open house locations in the Pacific Time Zone include:
• North Central Health District in Lewiston
• Panhandle Health District in Hayden.
Additional information may be seen on DEQ website at:
http://www.deq.idaho.gov/rules/deq_rulemaking.cfm.
If anyone has questions concerning the Onsite Waste Water rule set, they may
contact Mr. AJ Maupin, PE via E-mail at
aj.maupin@deq.idaho.gov or
phone at (208) 373-0167. Mr. Maupin is in the Boise DEQ office.
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!
National Countdown Round
Here are a few questions from the 2008 National Countdown Round. Enjoy!
(Congratulations to all of the National competitors!)
A line with slope m is tangent to a circle with its center at the origin. If the
line is tangent at (3, 4), what is the value of m? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
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Sonia takes at most three tests on any one school day, and at most seven tests
in any five consecutive school days. (A Friday and the following Monday are
considered consecutive school days.) What is the least number of consecutive
school days in which Sonia could take 20 tests?
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A set of distinct positive integers has a total of 11 digits, and all the digits
are 1s. What is the smallest possible sum of the integers in the set?
Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:
First we’ll find the actual amount of depreciation.
$490,000 – $410,000 = $80,000
Now divide the amount of depreciation by the 2005 purchase price and multiply by
100.
($80,000 ÷ $490,000) × 100 = 16%, to the nearest whole number
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First, let’s find their total investment in the home (purchase price and
upgrades/major repairs).
$72,000 + $10,000 + $20,000 + $15,000 = $117,000
Next, let’s find out the actual value of the appreciation.
$510,000 - $117,000 = $393,000
Finally, we’ll divide the value of the appreciation by Greg and Marsha’s
investment, and multiply by 100.
($393,000 ÷ $117,000) × 100 = 335.8974…% ≈ 335.9%, to the nearest tenth
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First, we’ll follow the same steps that we did in question 2 to find out the
amount of appreciation from 1976 to 2008.
$450,000 - $117,000 = $333,000
($333,000 ÷ $117,000) × 100 = 284.6154%
Now we can find the difference between the percent appreciations.
335.8974% - 284.6154% = 51.3%, to the nearest tenth
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://mathcounts.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=1291&srcid=1292
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