Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
Friday Update - 09/30/05
UPCOMING EVENTS:
• October 10, 2005 – Put
the Brakes on Fatalities Day
• October 18, 2005 – ISPE Southwest Chapter Noon
Luncheon – 12:00 Noon - Washington Group International Training Room – Larry
Bennett, PE – “Volunteering in 3rd World Countries”
• October 28, 2005 - PE and PLS Examinations - Boise, Idaho
• October 29, 2005 FE (aka EIT) Examinations - Boise, Idaho, Pocatello, Idaho,
Moscow, Idaho
• November 5, 2005 - Western & Pacific Region Annual Meeting - Helena, MT
• January 20 - 23, 2006 - NSPE Winter Meeting - Washington DC
• March 16 - 17, 2006 - ISPE Annual Meeting - Boise, ID
• July 6 - 11, 2006 - NSPE Summer Meeting - Boston, MA
Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Relief
NSPE wishes to extend its sincerest condolences to the thousands of victims of
Hurricane Katrina. The Society has been receiving numerous requests from members
asking how they can assist the disaster relief efforts in the Gulf Coast region.
In response, NSPE has established a Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund with a seed
contribution of $50,000 to assist state societies and their members in the
affected region and is looking into opportunities for engineers to volunteer
their services. NSPE would like your help in growing this fund. If you'd like to
make a tax-deductible contribution, please use our
online donation form,
or call 1-888-285-NSPE, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time. Checks can be sent to:
NSPE Hurricane Relief Fund
P.O. Box Dept. 855
Alexandria, VA 22334-0001
Total
Hurricane Relief Fund (as of 9/23/05): $65,754
Further information about the
response effort can be found on the
Federal
Emergency Management Agency and Red Cross
Web sites. If you are interested in volunteer relief opportunities, see the
Department of Homeland Security's National
Emergency Resource Registry.
Online Seminars: Ethics,
Interviewing, Contracts, and More
NSPE is offering many new and popular online Web seminars this fall. For
details and sign-up information, go to the
Education section of the
NSPE Web site or contact Mary Maul at or
703-684-2833.
NSPE Fall 2005 Ethics Forum—You Be the Judge
October 5, November 9, and December 7
12:30–1:30 p.m. (Eastern)
The Forum will cover the following topics:
Professional Competency: What recourse do engineers have if they are
asked to perform work beyond their area(s) of competence? Are engineers
obligated to action if they observe other professionals acting beyond their
area(s) of competence?
Conflict of Interest: How does an engineer decide if a conflict exists?
When faced with a conflict, what steps should an engineer take to address the
conflict?
Public Health and Safety: What does the engineer’s obligation to protect
the public health and safety mean? What resources are available to practicing
engineers when faced with ethical dilemmas?
Interviewing Skills—What works? What doesn’t?
Join Barbara Irwin from HR Advisors Group, LLC to learn how to excel as an
interviewer and as an interviewee.
October 6
1:30–3:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Indemnification and Risk Allocation—Reaping the Benefits of EJCDC Contract
Documents
October 18
2:00–3:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Engineering the Government: A Grassroots Primer on Lobbying
October 27
1:30–3:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Fire Protection Design: Alarms
November 15
1:30–3:00 p.m. (Eastern)
MATHCOUNTS PROBLEM OF THE WEEK
Can you solve this MATHCOUNTS problem? The answer will appear in next week's
edition of the Friday Update!
Preparing For October
As September is in winding down, we can see that nine of the 12 calendar
months of 2005 will have passed at the end of the day on September 30. This will
mean 9/12 = 3/4 = 75% of 2005 will have passed, when considering just the
months. If we instead want to know what percent of the days in 2005 have passed
at the end of the last day of September, what is our answer? Express your answer
to the nearest tenth.
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At the end of the month, school teachers around the country will be taking down
the individual paper letters that spell out SEPTEMBER across the top of their
bulletin boards and putting up a new set of letters for OCTOBER. What is the
probability that if Jacob randomly picks up a letter from the pile of paper
letters used to spell out SEPTEMBER, his letter can be used when putting up the
word OCTOBER? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Ms. Carol’s bulletin board is 5 feet wide. Each letter she will be using to
spell out OCTOBER on her bulletin board is 5 inches wide and she wants to put
OCTOBER across the top of the board and centered from left to right. If she will
leave 1.5 inches of blank space between each of the letters, how many inches
from the left side of the board should she place the left-most side of the first
"O?"
Idaho Society of Professional Engineers
PO Box 170239
Boise, ID 83717-0239
208-426-0636
Fax: 208-426-0639
E-Mail: ispe@rmci.net
Web Site: www.Idahospe.org
Idaho
Society of Professional Engineers
