Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update - 04/29/05
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
Craig Chapin/Boise
Dennis Galinato/Boise
UPCOMING EVENTS:
● May 13, 2005 - ISPE
Southwest Chapter MATHCOUNTS and Future City Fundraiser Golf Tournament - 1:00
PM start - Purple Sage Golf Course. For more information contact Lynn Olson at
lolson@toengrco.com
● May 24, 2005 -
ISPE Southwest Chapter May Meeting
● July 7 - 9, 2005 - NSPE
2005 Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois
● October 28, 2005 - PE and
PLS Examinations - Boise, Idaho
● October 29, 2005 FE (aka
EIT) Examinations - Boise, Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
ISPE SOUTHWEST CHAPTER GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Spring Southwest Chapter ISPE Fundraiser Golf Tournament will be
held on May 13th at Purple Sage in Caldwell. This tournament is the Southwest
Chapter's primary fundraising source for supporting both the local
MATHCOUNTS
and Future City programs that benefit 100's of local 6th,
7th and 8th graders in the Treasure Valley and all over Idaho. These programs
cannot survive without the support of our local community including our
engineers. You do not need to be a member of ISPE to participate. Please forward
to anyone you think may be interested. Signups are due by May 6th so get your
entries in today before it is too late! For additional information,
contact Lynn Olson, lolson@toengrco.com, or by phone at 208-323-2288.
FUTURE CITY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Future City is a program for 7th and 8th graders in which teams of students
design and present their vision of what a city of the future should look like.
The teams work with teachers and engineering mentors, and create their city
using SimCity software, taking into account factors such as energy needs,
traffic density, pollution levels, and other real-life design considerations.
They also must build a model of a portion of their city, write an essay on a
designated topic, and present the whole package to a panel of judges. The
preparation starts in August. Regional competitions are in January/ early
February. The national competition is during Engineer’s Week. On January 15,
2005, Idaho hosted the first local competition for the Future City Competition
with a huge success. 10 schools and a total of 16 teams competed in the
competition. It was fun for both the students and volunteers!
Right now, we need volunteers to help recruit schools. We are working to make
volunteering easy and can set you up with assignments that are finite and short
in length. We will be staffing booths at several functions this spring targeting
both teachers and students. Also... if you have a child in the 6th to 8th grade,
you can help us immensely by getting them interested and marketing the program
to their teachers. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Lynn
Olson, lolson@toengrco.com, or by phone at 208-323-2288.
ISPE SOUTHWEST CHAPTER MAY MEETING
The Southwest Chapter 's May meeting has been moved from the 3rd Tuesday in May
to May 24th at noon. The location has also changed to the Training Room at
Washington Group International, not the executive dining room. Please ask for
directions when signing in. Our speaker will be Dr. Bob Kustra, President of
Boise State University, and he will speaking about the future growth of BSU at
the main campus and the satellite campuses and the challenges faced with an
expanding metropolitan university
JOB OPPORTUNITIES.....
Need PE's with land development experience, prefer 5 years or so, If not
licensed in Arizona would need to go through reciprocity within the first year.
The positions are located in the Phoenix metro area, midsize firm, direct hire.
Please fax resumes to Howard Cornell, 602-678-5155.
MATHCOUNTS COMPETITION ON ESPN2
MATHCOUNTS is pleased to announce that the 2005 MATHCOUNTS National Competition
will air on ESPN2. This exciting TV program will debut on June 3 at noon ET and
rebroadcast on June 7 at 6:00 p.m. ET.
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 Tradition Continues
For the 109th running of the Boston Marathon, it was reported that 20,453
runners crossed the starting line and took on the challenge of running a
marathon. This is a huge number of people! If it’s estimated that the runners
cross the starting line at a rate of 1800 runners per minute, how long will it
take for all 20,453 runners to cross the starting line? Express your answer in
the form "minutes, seconds" to the nearest second.
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This year the marathon remembered Johnny Kelley, a two-time winner and 61-time
participant! Just as amazing as the number of marathons Kelley participated in
is the fact that he completed 58 of those 61 marathons. What percent of Kelley’s
Boston Marathons did he finish? Express your answer to the nearest whole
percent.
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The temperature for the 2004 marathon was a scorching 86 degrees. This year’s
marathon temperature was a much more comfortable 68 degrees. What must the
temperature be next year to make the three-year average for 2004-2006 five
degrees cooler than the current two-year average for 2004-2005?
Answer to last week's MATHCOUNTS problem:
Madison will have to turn her clock forward one hour a total of 24 times in
order to be exactly 24 hours ahead of Rachel and have the exact same time
showing on her clock. Madison will turn her clock forward for the 24th time on
March 1, 2007, so this is the first day the two clocks will again be set to the
same time.
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The tip of the minute hand will be moving through one full circle with a radius
of 5 inches. The circumference of a circle this size is the product of the
diameter and pi, which is 10p inches. The hour hand will just be moving from one
number to the next. This is one-twelfth of the entire way around the circle with
a radius of three inches, or (1/12)(6p) = p/2. The sum of these two distances is
10.5p, which is approximately 33 inches.
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Each machine makes a glork in 12 minutes. That means that a machine makes 5
glorks each hour. During a regular day, this would be 5 ´ 24 = 120 glorks per
day. If 250 machines are running, the factory makes 120 ´ 250 = 30,000 each day.
However, there are only 23 hours on this particular day. So each machine will
have time to make 5 ´ 23 = 115 glorks during the day. In order to make a total
of 30,000 glorks that day, the factory will need 30,000 ¸ 115 = 261 machines
working all day.
If you want to see last week's problem again, click
http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=639&z=104
Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
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Boise, ID 83717-0239
208-426-0636
Fax: 208-426-0639
E-Mail: ispe@rmci.net
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