Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update 09/14/07
UPCOMING EVENTS:
September 18, 2008
ISPE Southwest Chapter
Monthly Meeting 12:00 Noon Washington Group International Training
Room
September 20, 2007 -
ISPE Northern Chapter Monthly
Meeting - Breakfast Nook, Coeur d'Alene
October 4, 2007
ACEC Trap and Skeet
Shoot 1:00 5:00 pm Boise Gun Club
October 26, 2007 -
PE and PS Examinations Boise, Idaho
October 27, 2007 -
FS (aka LSIT) Examination Boise,
Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
October 27, 2007 -
FE (aka EIT) Examinations Boise,
Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
February 17 23, 2008
National Engineers Week
THE IDAHO FUTURE CITY COMPETITION NEEDS YOU!
The fourth annual Idaho Future City Competition is picking up a head of steam
this fall. We have 24 teams already signed up and hoping for five or ten more
teams. We have been very successful in bringing this educational program to
middle school students in Idaho thanks to your generous support and help.
Right now, we have six middle schools that would like to participate in the
Idaho Future City Competition, but need an engineer mentor to work with their
team. These schools are as follows:
Sandpoint Charter - Sandpoint
Sacajawea Jr. High School - Lewiston
Collister Elementary - Boise
Meridian Middle - Meridian
West Middle School - Nampa
Lakes Middle School - Coeur D'Alene
If you are or someone that you know/work with might be interested, please
contact Bill Holder
(wholder@stratageotech.com) or Lynn Olson
(lolson@toengrco.com). We can get you
more information and/or hook you up with one of these teams. If there is a
school closer to you that you would like to work with, we can also help you with
recruitment to bring them on board.
Information on the Future City Competition and Mentor Responsibilities
The Future City Competition is an educational program for 7th and 8th grade
students where they design a city using SimCity software, build a scale model of
a portion of the city, write a brief essay, and give a presentation on their
city to a panel of engineer judges. The students must incorporate engineering
decision making into their city design. An engineer mentor works with the team
during preparation for the competition. Typically engineer mentors work with the
students for about one to two hours twice a month. Engineering students,
registered professional engineers, people with an engineering degree and
practicing engineering in the private or public sector, or retired engineers can
be engineer mentors.
If mentoring does not fit you, then we also need volunteers to assist with
judging, school recruitment, and competition logistics. You can find out more
about the Idaho Future City Competition at
www.futurecityidaho.org or the
national competition at www.futurecity.org.
Thanks in advance for your continued support and volunteer help.
FUTURE CITY INFORMATION SESSION
The first of two information sessions on the National Engineers Week Idaho
Regional Future City Competition will be held next Wednesday, September 19th at
Boise State University. The approximately one hour session will last from 6-7 pm
in room MEC106 of the Micron Engineering Center. See the
map for directions. Please
come if you are interested in learning more about this program and how you can
become involved as an engineer mentor and judge for this year's competition.
Also if you are interested in joining the Future City Steering Committee to help
assist in organizing this great program, there are openings in all areas from
fundraising to engineer, school and other volunteer recruitment. Please contact
Lynn Olson (lolson@toengrco.com or
323-1578 ext. 255) with any questions. Thanks again for ISPE's support of Future
Cities and hope to see you there!
WELCOME TO OUR NEW ISPE SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONS:
AHJ Engineers, PC
J.M. Miller Engineering, Inc
Kittelson & Associates, Inc
Materials Testing & Inspection
MWH
ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF ALL OF OUR
CURRENT SUSTAINING
ORGANIZATIONS:
AHJ Engineers, PC
B & A Engineers, 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!
Making The Grade
To calculate Stanleys GPA his school assigns points to each final semester
grade he earns and then averages all of his grades together. In his school, an
A is worth 4 points, a B is worth 3 points, a C is worth 2 points, a D
is worth 1 point and an F is worth 0 points. After the first day of class
Stanley thinks he will end up with As in English, Math, and Gym, and Bs in
Science and History for the semester. If his guesses are accurate, what will his
GPA be for the semester? Assume that the GPA is un-weighted. Express your answer
as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
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On Jordans first day of school her math teacher hands out a syllabus and tells
her that it outlines how many tests, quizzes and projects shell have during the
first quarter and how much of her grade each item is worth. When she opens up
her syllabus she finds that she has 3 tests, 6 quizzes and 2 projects! Upon
reading further, Jordan finds that the value of each test is equivalent to the
value of two quizzes and the value of each project is equivalent to the value of
1.5 tests. Assuming there are no other contributing factors to her grade, what
fraction of her grade is determined by each project? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
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In another class, later in the quarter, Jordan had an average score of 89 points
on the first 4 quizzes. When the lowest quiz score is dropped the average of her
remaining three test scores goes up to a 94 points. What was the score of the
dropped test?
Answer to last weeks MATHCOUNTS problem:
Calculate the total cost of the items at each location.
Item
Reg. Price Super Store Central
Supply Central is the least
expensive.
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First find total cost of the sale
prices of the items on your list.
$2.51 + $1.39 + $3.00 + $0.69 +
$0.69 + $1.83 (2) + $1.59 (5) + $1.75 + $4.63 + $2.63 + $3.19 (2) = $33.92
Find the sum of the sale items at
their regular prices
$3.59 + $1.99 + $4.29 + $0.99 +
$0.99 + $2.29 (2) + $2.19 + $1.99 (5) + $5.79 + $3.29 + $3.99 (2) = $45.63
Subtract the regular price total
from the sale price total.
$45.63 - $33.92 = $11.71
Divide the difference by the
regular price total and multiply by 100.
$11.71 ๗ 45.63 = 0.256629
ื 100 =
25.7%, rounded to the tenths place.
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Find the total price of the items
purchased before tax
$2.51 + $1.39 + $3.00 + $0.69 +
$0.69 = $8.28
Find the difference between the
cost of the items before and your total price with tax.
$8.74 - $8.28 = $0.46
Divide the difference by the cost
of the items before tax and multiply by 100.
$0.46๗$8.28 = 0.05555
ื 100 =
5.6% to the nearest tenth
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Find the sum of the prices of the
sale items.
$1.83 (2) + $1.59 (5) + $1.75 +
$4.63 + $2.63 + $3.19 (2) = $27.00
Calculate the dollar value of
taxes to be paid by multiplying the sum by the decimal form of the sales tax
percentage.
($27.00)(0.055) = $1.49 to the
nearest cent
Now add the tax to the sum of the
prices of the items.
$27.00 + $1.49 = $28.49
If you want to see last week's
problem again, click
http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=1095&z=110
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Fax: 208-426-0639
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