Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update - 04/23/04
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
Kevin Shoemaker/Basic Engineering PC
Michael Van Stone/Thomas, Dean & Hoskins Inc
UPCOMING EVENTS:
● IBPEPLS Board Meeting, April 30 and May
1, 2004
● ISPE Board Meeting, May 11, 2004
● NSPE 2004 Convention and Expo, July 8 -
10, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - BSU COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING GRADUATION PARTY
The BSU College of Engineering Graduation Party is being planned and ISPE
members are invited to get involved. Here is what they are looking for:
A professional (or many) representative for professional display and sign-up
booths
Help with planning and set-up on May 15th for the grad party at 2pm. Set up will
begin at 11ish
Please come and have fun. There are a DJ, BBQ, AstroJump (for children),
volleyball, and fun adult games planned. Families and friends of the graduates
are invited, as well as all of the professionals within ISPE. For more
information or to volunteer, please contact Julee Drinkwater at
julee_betty@hotmail.com
USA Today - Engineering Article Features
Quote From NSPE
Through NSPE's PR efforts, Tuesday's USA Today (circulation of 2.2
million readers) featured a wonderful engineering article with a quote from NSPE
Executive Director Al Gray. The article relates to a perceived rise in the
number of black/minority students going into engineering, and also touches on
the issue of diversity in the field. You may read the article at the following
link:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-04-19-engineering-usat_x.htm
Web Seminar Focuses on Duty to Protect the Public
Don't miss NSPE's May 19 Web seminar on the engineer's ethical responsibilities
related to "Protection of the Public Health and Safety."
http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/nspeupdt/issues/2004-04-21.html
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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!
The Simpsons at the National Competition
Each year we ask the national competitors what their favorite television
shows are, and each year The Simpsons is near the top of the list! This year is
no exception, and in their honor, we will be incorporating a Simpsons (and
CSI)-related question into the Fun Round before the big National Competition Fun
Round! Here are some of the Simpsons Fun Round questions from prior years for
you to enjoy!
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Fun Round 2003: The 16 contestants on Survivor are the three Simpsons kids, the
four stars on Seinfeld, six anchors from ESPN’s Sports Center, and Goku, Gohan
and Goken from Dragonball Z. If each contestant is equally likely to be one of
the final two survivors, what is the probability that the final two survivors
will be from the same show? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Fun Round 2003: Last year, Springfield Middle School took home top MATHCOUNTS
honors at their Chapter Competition. On the Sprint Round (with a maximum score
of 30), Lisa scored highest with a 28 while Nelson had the lowest score of 1.
The mean of the four teammates’ scores was 15 and there were no prime-number
scores. Ralph’s score beat Bart’s score, but they both scored above 10. What was
Bart’s Sprint Round score?
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Fun Round 2002: The Springfield Middle School MATHCOUNTS team divided up the ten
questions on the Team Round at the State Competition in the following manner:
Milhouse Van Houten had #7, 8, 9 and 10; Bart had #4, 5 and 6; Ralph Wiggam had
#2 and 3; and Nelson Muntz had #1. We know from the results that Milhouse got
all four of his questions correct, Bart only got two of his right, and Ralph got
one correct before Nelson gave him a wedgie and the two of them were sent to
Principal Skinner’s office. What is the probability, assuming that the questions
are not in any order according to difficulty, that Team Springfield answered
problems #2, 4 and 9 correctly? Express your answer as a common fraction.
Answer to last week's problem:
In five years, there are approximately 365 × 5 = 1825 days. If this time is
divided evenly among 40 stores, a store would open every 1825 ÷ 40 = 46 days, to
the nearest whole number. Notice that if leap years are factored in, our answer
remains the same.
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The 3-2 margin tells us that 3 of every 5 people voted no, and 2 of every 5
people voted yes. Therefore, 2 ÷ 5 = 40% of the people voted in favor of the
initiative.
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We know the square footage of the Supercenter, and the football field is 50 ×
120 = 6000 square yards. Notice, though, that we have square feet and square
yards. Let’s put everything in terms of square feet. There are nine square feet
in one square yard, so the area of a football field is 6000 × 9 = 54,000 square
feet. If we divide the space of the store by the space of the field, we see that
one store’s area is equivalent to the area of 200,000 ÷ 54,000 = 3.7 football
fields.
If you want to see last week's problem again, click on
http://www.mathcounts.org/Queries/POW_Archive.taf?_function=detail&Q_A_uid1=490&_UserReference=E0DB2E14F09A1E7D4086C046
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