IT’S NOT TOO LATE…THERE IS STILL TIME TO ATTEND…
IDAHO SOCIETY
OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
2009 Annual Meeting
June 11 & 12, 2009
Best Western, Coeur d'Alene Inn - 506 West Appleway, Coeur d'Alene
Don’t miss this opportunity. ISPE is offering great CPD
opportunities for conference attendees. The seminars and topics relate directly
and powerfully to nearly every area of your practice and profession!
FUTURE CITY COMPETITION ON NATIONAL NEWS HOUR W/JIM LEHRER
ISPE SOUTHWEST CHAPTER HOSTS ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL
FUNDRAISING GOLF TOURNAMENT!
Thank you to all the participants and sponsors of this year's ISPE SW Chapter
MATHCOUNTS and Future City Golf Tournament! This year's event on Friday May 8th
at Purple Sage included 21 teams and 11 hole sponsors raising $3,481.54!!! This
money will go towards the awards, shirts and additional costs associated with
running the ISPE SW Chapter's MATHCOUNTS program held each February as well as
contributing to the 6th Idaho Regional Future City Program to be held January 9,
2010. Approximately $21 from each golfer's entry fee will go directly to these
programs along with 100% of the hole sponsorship money.
The final results included:
1st Place - Team Geo Tek: David Waite, Del Martens, Ryan Carnie and Eric
Anderson
2nd Place - Team Strata: Bill Holder, Mike Woodworth, Eric Traynor, and Larry
Hellhake
Closest to the Pin Winners - Adam Zaragoza (Team CH2M Hill) and Steve Waldinger
(Team Forsgren)
Longest Drive Winners - Shawn Hilde (Team Micron) and Dion Zimmerman (Team
Terracon)
A majority of the tournament profits come from the hole sponsorships which this
year included the following companies: CH2M Hill, Geo Tek, HDR, J-U-B Engineers,
Keller and Associates, Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH), Terracon, T-O Engineers,
Transpo Group, and Washington Division of URS. Special thanks to Washington
Division of URS for sponsoring the Long Drive Contest holes.
Thanks again, ISPE appreciates your continued support of this tournament and the
programs it supports.
EARN FREE CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
As part of membership in NSPE, all members are now able to
receive four free professional development hours through online ethics courses.
The courses, each worth one professional development hour, include the
following:
1.
Engineering Ethics and the Law: Contract Documents and Procurement of
Engineering Services (ONL-009)
2.
Engineering Ethics and the Law: Contract Documents, Intellectual Property &
Professional Liability (ONL-012)
3.
Engineering Ethics and the Law: The PE as an Expert Witness (ONL-013)
4.
Ethical Engineering and Fair Trade: Conflicting Interests (ONL-018)
At the end of each seminar, a quiz will be available for those who need it to
meet state continuing education requirements. The seminars have also been
approved for continuing education credit in New York.
To access the courses, visit
www.nspe.org/Education/WebSeminars/index.html.
The courses are also available to nonmembers for $149 each.
ISPE SINCERELY APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF ALL OF OUR
CURRENT 2008 - 2009 SUSTAINING
ORGANIZATIONS:
AHJ Engineers PC
B & A
Engineers, Inc
Briggs Engineering,
Inc
Elkhorn Engineers
G & S
Structural Engineers
J.M. Miller
Engineering Inc
J-U-B
Engineers, Inc
Land
Solutions, Land Surveying & Consulting
Mason &
Stanfield Inc
Materials
Testing & Inspection Inc
MWH
Progressive
Engineering Group Inc
Quadrant
Consulting, Inc
Riedesel
Engineering Inc
Schiess &
Associates
Smarter
Process Inc
Stapley
Engineering
Terracon
TerraGraphics
Environmental Engineers Inc
Walker
Engineering
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!
Rules – The Problems
Define x ** y as (x3 - y)/x
when x and y are distinct positive integers. What is the value of
5**10?
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Define m # n as Im - nI - m2
for all integers from 1 to 10 inclusive. If m and n are distinct integers, what
is the smallest possible value of m # n?
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Define a & b as a2 - b2
+ ab when a and b are real numbers. What is the value of (3
& 4) &5?
Answer to the last MATHCOUNTS problem:
First let’s covert the measurements from produce (beans and
potatoes) to feet.
22 beans (4 inches/ 1 bean)(1 foot/ 12 inches) = 7.333333… ft
15 beans (4 inches/ 1 bean) (1 foot/ 12 inches) = 5 ft
6 potatoes (6 inches/ 1 potato)(1 foot/ 12 inches) = 3 ft
20 potatoes (6 inches/ 1 potato)(1 foot/ 12 inches) = 10 ft
Now we can break up the figure into two rectangles and find the area of each.
7.333333(5) = 36.66667 sq ft
3(10) = 30 sq feet
Thus the total area is 30 + 36.66667 = 66.7 sq feet, to the nearest tenth.
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The probability of a purple flower, then a purple flower, and
then a yellow flower is (4/16)(3/15)(4/14) = 48/3360 = 1/70.
However, since order was not specified, the three flowers could
arise in any order. This means that we must multiply by 3 (because there are 3
distinct orders in which the 2 flower colors could appear).
3(1/70) = 3/70
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Note that because of the walkway, the flowers will only be
planted along 8 of the 10 feet that make up the front of the porch. Since the
flower border will be planted 1 foot away from the porch we need to add one foot
to the length of the flower border on each side. This means Helen and Harold
will be planting flowers in a 9-foot row in the front and a 4-foot row on the
side.
Now let’s convert the 9 + 4 = 13 feet to inches.
(13 feet)(12 inches/ 1 foot) = 156 inches
However, remember that they want to start planting 6 inches from the walkway, so
there is actually 156 – 6 = 150 inches in which they can plant flowers.
Thus, if each flower needs 6 inches between itself and the next flower we should
divide 150 by 6.
150/6 = 25 flowers
If you want to see the problem again,
click
https://mathcounts.org/Page.aspx?pid=1436
Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
PO Box 170239
Boise, ID 83717-0239
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