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Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update – 01/08/10

UPCOMING EVENTS:

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

Volunteers from all engineering disciplines are needed to interview Boise State Students for the 2010 Outstanding Engineering Student Awards.  Volunteers will make the selection of the outstanding student in each of the four disciplines (CE, ME, EE, and Material Science) at Boise State.  The time commitment will be one evening for approximately 3 hours in early February.  The interviews will take place at Boise State University.  All student nominees will be honored at the Engineers Week Banquet.  If you would like to volunteer please e-mail Heather Carroll at Heather.Carroll@hdrinc.com. 

SEISMIC SEMINAR – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010

What

PDH Seminar

Seismic Design – What Every Engineer Should Know

Or, Earthquakes for Idiots! – 2 PDH

This seminar is for all engineers (particularly MEs and EEs) and will cover the basics everyone should know about current code requirements.

When

Wednesday, January 13th

7 – 9 PM

Where

Portneuf Valley Brewing

615 South 1st Avenue

Pocatello, ID 83201

You can obtain dinner before, or during, the seminar.  Come out, have a good time, and learn something about seismic design!

ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF ALL OF OUR CURRENT 2008 – 2009 SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONS:

AHJ Engineers PC
B & A Engineers Inc
JM Miller Engineering Inc
J-U-B Engineers, Inc
Mason & Stanfield Inc
Progressive Engineering Group Inc
Quadrant Consulting, Inc
Riedesel Engineering Inc
Smarter Process Inc
Terracon
TerraGraphics Environmental Engineers Inc
T-O Engineers Inc

URS - Washington Division
Walker Engineering
WHPacific Inc
 

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 the next edition of the Friday Update!

A Look At The Past Decade
2010 is the start of a new decade and often when you start something new it is good to reflect on the past, so here are a few new year problems from the past 10 years.
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At the start of the last decade everyone was concerned about Y2K...
Well, we made it. Y2K is here. Interesting thing about the first date of the new millennium, 01/01/00 - when the digits of that date are added, it's the smallest possible sum of any date. What date during the next century, when written in that form, will have the greatest possible sum of its digits?
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How many seconds will occur this millennium (the year 2000 through the year 2999)? Express your answer in scientific notation.
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New year's eve is a time when many people make resolutions...
Peitlyn decided that she would like to read more during 2005, so she made a resolution to read 30 minutes each day. If Peitlyn reads an average of 1 page every 2 minutes and she finishes her 6th book at the end of her reading session on March 31, 2005, what would be the average number of pages per book for these six books?
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Nora’s resolution is to get more exercise. She decided that starting with the first full week in 2005, she will do a 45-minute workout four times each week (four days during every seven-day period). This means she will have to exercise four of the days during the week of Jan. 1 through Jan. 7, and then four of the days during the week of Jan. 8 through Jan. 14, and so on. If Nora sticks to her resolution, what is the first possible date on which she could reach a total of 25 hours of exercise for the year?

 

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