FUTURE CITY INFORMATION SESSIONS (9/10 - BOISE and
9/18 – COEUR D’ALENE)
Two information sessions are scheduled in September for those already registered
or interested in learning more about the National Engineers Week Future City
Competition. The Future City Competition which is going into its 17th year
nationally and 5th year in Idaho is an essentially free educational program for
seventh and eighth-grade students run entirely by volunteers including a number
of ISPE members throughout the state.
The Future City program combines an engineering challenge with a "hands-on"
application as students present their vision of a city of the future by working
in teams along with their teacher and a volunteer engineer mentor. Students are
given SimCity4 software which they use while taking into account real life
design considerations such as energy needs, traffic density, and pollution in
developing a city. Next the students research and write an essay on a given
engineering topic. This year's essay is "Create a self sufficient system
within a home which conserves, recycles and reuses all existing water sources."
The team's exploration will involve describing existing technologies to
improve water use within the home along with new technologies incorporated in
the future city residence. The students then build a model of a portion of their
city and present the whole package to a panel of judges at the Regional
Competition to be held on Saturday January 10th at Boise State University with
the winner advancing to the National Finals in Washington D.C. next February.
Planning is just getting underway and anyone interested in volunteering to
participate in this program as an engineer mentor (mentors are needed in
Meridian, Ontario, Pocatello, and Homedale) or who just wants to find out more
about the program is welcome to attend!
The first information session will be held in Boise this coming Wednesday,
September 10th at Boise State University from 6 to 7 pm in Room MEC of the
Micron Engineering Center. See
http://www.boisestate.edu/maps/ for a map of the campus. Enter the building
via Manitou St.
The second information session will be held in Coeur d'Alene on Thursday
September 18th at Toothman-Orton Engineering (West 280 Prairie Avenue) also from
6-7 pm. Come learn more about this exciting program!!
The deadline to register schools is just over a month away on October 15th and
the following 17 schools are registered as of 9/5: Beehive Academy (Salt Lake),
Boise Home School (Boise), Clark Fork Middle (Clark Fork), Emmett Jr. High
(Emmett), Hawthorne Middle (Pocatello), Heritage Middle (Meridian), Homedale
Middle (Homedale), Idaho Distance Education Academy (Boise), Lakes Middle (Coeur
d'Alene), Meridian Home School (Meridian), Meridian Middle (Meridian), North
Fremont Jr. High (Ashton), Ontario Middle (Ontario), Parma Middle (Parma),
Rolling Hills Public Charter (Boise), Sacred Heart (Boise) and Sage Middle
(Nampa). If you have contacts (parents, teachers or students) at these or other
schools and want to get involved with either an existing team or to help recruit
a school please contact Lynn Olson
(lolson@toengrco.com) or Bill Holder
(WHolder@stratageotech.com).
More information about the program is also available at
www.futurecityidaho.org,
www.futurecity.org, or by contacting a
Steering Committee member
(http://www.futurecityidaho.org/futurecity_Contact.html).
Thanks to ISPE for its continued support of this great program.
For the latest national Future City news be sure to check out
http://www.futurecity.org/home_press.shtm.
A "You Tube" video recap of the 2008 National Future City Finals produced by
Bentley Systems, Inc. can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTeWL5wmjDU
NSPE FALL EDUCATION SEMINARS
Develop and hone your professional skills—without leaving your
desk—by participating in one of NSPE's upcoming Web seminars. Set aside 90
minutes in your workday to gain insight into today's hottest topics from the
field's most knowledgeable leaders.
Slips, Trips, & Falls Part I
September 17, 1:30–3:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Presented by Professional Engineers in Construction
In Part I of "Slips, Trips, and Falls: From an Engineering and Legal
Perspective" participants will develop an understanding of the why slips and
falls occur and the most common causes behind them. Moreover, they will learn
about injury statistics and trends as well as gravity, friction, and ergonomics.
This Web seminar will also examine the requirements and codes set forth by the
various governing agencies that help to keep us safe including state "premises
liability" laws and standards of reasonable care and analyze different types of
surfaces that most commonly cause slips, trips, and falls in residential and
commercial settings including walks and ramps, stairs, floor, wall openings, and
holes.
Information at
http://www.nspe.org/Education/WebSeminars/index.html
ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF ALL OF OUR
CURRENT 2008 - 2009 SUSTAINING
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Please consider joining these great companies in
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supporting the needs of the engineer including professional development.
If you are interested in becoming a
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MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF
THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS
problem? The answer will appear in next week's edition of the Friday Update!
Bolt - The Problems
Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the
gold medal in the 100m and 200m sprints at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
He set a world record of 9.69 seconds in the 100m race, and he set another world
record of 19.30 seconds in the 200m race.
WITHOUT A CALCULATOR, is which
race did he have a faster average speed? Express your answer as a decimal to the
nearest hundredth.
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What was his
average speed in miles per hour during each of the races? Note: 1609.344 meters
= 1 mile.
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If Usain was
able to run 1 mile at the rate that he ran each of the races at the Olympics,
what would be the positive difference, in seconds, between his time running at
the 200m-race rate and his time running at the 100m-race rate? Express your
answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
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*** How long
would it take you to run each of these races (100m sprint and 200m sprint)? What
would your average speed be?
Answer to the last MATHCOUNTS
problem:
2/5 = 4/x
2x = 20
x = 10 cups
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The formula for the volume of a
cylinder is V = πr2h
π (3/2)2(1/2) =
π(9/4)(1/2) = (9/8)π
Now we’ll find the volume of the
hole in the middle.
V = π12(1/2) = (1/2)
π
Finally, we have to subtract out
the hole in the middle.
(9/8)π - (1/2)π = (9/8)π -
(4/8)π = (5/8)π cubic feet
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(4/6)(100) = 66.7%, to the nearest
tenth
If you want to see last week's
problem again, click
http://mathcounts.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=1322&srcid=1329
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