Idaho Society of Professional Engineers

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Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update – 09/07/07

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• September 12-15, 2007 – Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors Meeting - Holiday Inn, 3300 S. Vista, Boise

• 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
 

VISIT THE NEW ISPE CAREER CENTER!
This Career Center is available to members searching for employment opportunities in our industry and our geographical region.
 

We recognize that searching for employment opportunities within our specialized niche can be time consuming and frustrating. In providing this Career Center for our users we are streamlining the process by focusing on our specific industry and offering jobs targeted to our members.
 

The Career Center is easy to use and unique in its ability to

 
• provide a highly targeted focus on employment opportunities within our industry and geography;
• offer anonymous resume posting and job application—enabling job candidates to stay connected to the employment market while maintaining full control over their confidential information;
• deliver an advanced Job Alert system that notifies candidates of new opportunities matching your own pre-selected criteria;
• provide access to industry-specific jobs often not seen on sites such as Monster, CareerBuilder, or HotJobs.
 

Your new Career Center is the perfect place to begin searching for your next employment opportunity.
 

Employers:
We recognize that searching for candidates within our very specialized niche can be time consuming and challenging. The ISPE Career Center is our solution. In providing this service we are streamlining the recruitment process by focusing on our specific industry and offering employers and recruiters a unique set of candidates targeted toward your organization’s needs.
 

This new Career Center is an ideal place to begin searching for your next employee.

ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF OUR CURRENT SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONS:

Land Solutions, Land Surveying & Consulting
Rational Technology of Idaho, LLC

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.
 

ACEC TRAP AND SKEET SHOOT
ACEC of Idaho is sponsoring a fun afternoon for you to try your skills at skeet (for individuals) and trap shooting (teams of 5). This fun event will include over three hours (50 targets) of skeet and trap shooting with instructions, if needed, and will end with a delicious BBQ. This is a time to enter a friendly competition with your colleagues, network, and just plain have fun! Click here for more information or contact ACEC of Idaho at ams@cableone.net.

NSPE CODE OF ETHICS FOR ENGINEERS REVISED
At its meeting in July 2007, the NSPE House of Delegates revised the Code of Ethics for Engineers. Click here to see the revised Code.

MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next week's edition of the Friday Update!

School Supplies
You are doing some back-to-school shopping today.  Your school supply list indicates that you need the following: two 2-pocket folders, #2 pencils, black or blue ball point pens, pen/pencil case, highlighters, one 12-pack of colored pencils, one 8-pack of markers, loose leaf paper, five 1-inch three ring binders, graphing paper, ruler, 3x5 index cards, two spiral bound notebooks.  The regular price for each item is listed below.

Item                                                              Regular Price

You find out that School Supply Super Store has all writing utensils (pencils, pens, colored pencils, markers, highlighters) on sale for 30% off and Supply Central has paper products (loose leaf, graphing, index cards, notebooks), binders, and folders on sale for 20% off.  If all of the other items are regular price (listed above) and you can make only one stop, which store should you stop at to get your supplies for the lowest total price?

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While shopping you decide to stop at both School Supply Super Store and Supply Central and only purchase the items from your list that are on sale at each store.  Compared to the regular prices, what is the average percent savings per item?  Express as a percent to the nearest tenth.

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After selecting all of the sale items at School Supply Super Store that are on your list you go to pay.  The cashier tells you that your total is $8.74.  How much is sales tax?  Express your answer as a percent to the nearest tenth.

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Assuming that the tax rate is the same at both School Supply Super Store and Supply Central, what will your total, with tax, be at Supply Central when you purchase their sale items that are on your list?

Answer to last week’s MATHCOUNTS problem:

For this question you’ll need to use the equation Rate = distance ÷ time

In order to find the average speed for the entire trip, you’ll need to first calculate the total distance and the total time it took to get there.

TOTAL DISTANCE:

106 miles + 174 miles = 280miles

TOTAL TIME:

DC to Richmond:

r = d ÷ t

58mph = 106 ÷ x

x = 106/58, or approximately 1.8276 hours

Richmond to Duck:

3 hours and 12 minutes… divide the 12 minutes by 60 and add it to 3 (hours) to calculate the time in hours.

3 + (12 ÷ 60) = 3.2

Total time = 5.0276 hours

Now we divide the total distance by the total time:

280 ÷ 5.0276 = 55.7mph (rounded to the nearest tenth)

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First determine how much time they have left to get from Williamsburg to DC if they were to tie their time from the trip down.

Time from Duck to Williamsburg:

126 ÷ 54 = 2.3333 hours

Now subtract that from the time it took them to get from DC to Duck:

5.0276 - 2.3333 = 2.6943 hours remaining

Divide the total distance left by the “time remaining”

153/2.6943 = 57 mph (to the nearest whole number)

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First find the actual amount of increase required:

Speed of second portion of the trip – speed of the first portion of the trip

57 mph – 54 mph = 3 mph

Then divide it by the speed from the first portion of the trip (and multiply by 100 to make it a percentage):

3mph ÷ 54mph ×100 = 5.6%

If you want to see last week's problem again, click http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=1084&z=110




Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
PO Box 170239
Boise, ID 83717-0239
208-426-0636
Fax: 208-426-0639
E-Mail: ispe@idahospe.org
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