President's Message
by Sharon Parkinson, PE

I would like to thank everyone for the opportunity to serve as your 2001-2002 State President. This newsletter is a bit late in coming out to the membership, but we thought it to be important enough to highlight some of the exciting things we have done this year in addition to discussing what is being planned for the coming year.

Sometime back we developed our ISPE Vision Statement:
"The Idaho Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE) will be the selected engineering society by Idaho professional engineers to promote engineering and public awareness and provide advocacy and networking."

Included with that is the ISPE Mission Statement:
"ISPE is the Idaho state society of engineering professionals from all disciplines that promotes the ethical and competent practice of engineering, advocates licensure, and enhances the image and well-being of its members."

As a society, our goals are to promote the field of engineering, professionalism, ethical conduct, and to help the society grow and prosper for the benefit of all engineering disciplines. What we would like to carry forward with next year is a strategy to promote the Vision and Mission Statements as well as what it means to be a member of ISPE. We have a great opportunity to work with NSPE, utilize the resources they have made available to us, and to go forward with a plan.

Recently, Annette Petrick, President of Petrick Outsourcing, Inc. has contracted with NSPE to become the NSPE Membership Initiative Consultant and help each state society promote membership. Annette recently worked with our state leadership to help us develop ideas to promote ISPE. In addition, she will have a complete development plan prepared in June for the ISPE board to vote on. We will make the proposal available on our website as soon as we receive it. I look forward to her proposal as I believe this will be a tremendous tool to the leadership and current members of ISPE for focusing our initial efforts in promoting membership growth in concert with the goals of our society. I recognize how precious time can be for everyone in a volunteer society, and I want to thank those who have helped so much this last year and those who continue to offer their support in carrying these initiatives forward.

 

President Elect's Message
by Cliff Roberts, PE

 

ISPE 2002 Annual Meeting

The Idaho Society of Professional Engineers held its 2002 Annual Meeting on May 9-11, 2002 at the DoubleTree Hotel Boise Riverside. The theme for this years meeting was "Engineering in Changing Times" and topics included "Engineers and Education", "Changing Energy Issues", "Global Competitiveness", and "Changing Security Issues". The Consulting Engineers of Idaho co-sponsored a seminar titled "The Idaho Legislative Process - The Past, the Present and the Future". V. Alan Werner, PE, NSPE Vice President, Western Region, was in attendance. He spoke on regional and national issues at the banquet on Friday night and during Saturday morning's breakfast. Awards were presented at the Friday evening banquet including the Consulting Engineers of Idaho's Engineering Excellence Awards, ISPE's Young Engineer of the Year, and ISPE's Idaho Engineering Hall of Fame awards. Award winner information is contained in this newsletter. The Annual ISPE Membership Meeting was held on Saturday, May 11. A draft copy of the membership meeting minutes can be viewed on ISPE's web site at http://home.rmci.net/ispe/. If you do not have on-line access, and wish to read the minutes, please contact the ISPE office at 208-426-0636, e-mail ispe@rmci.net, and a copy can be sent to you.

Page 1   Page 3