WHEREAS, professional engineers have made significant contributions to Idaho throughout its history and are responsible through their creativity for the technological achievements that have improved the quality of our lives and helped us compete in an increasingly technological world; and

        WHEREAS, some licensed professional engineers practicing in Idaho hold major responsibilities for the benefit and protection of Idaho citizens in the areas of public safety, health, welfare, the environment, transportation structures, water, power and communications, as well as mechanical, electrical and electronic devices important to everyday life; and

        WHEREAS, there are hundreds of students enrolled in colleges of engineering located on the campuses of Idaho’s three major universities, whose graduates have gone on to contribute to the economic health of our state and nation; and

        WHEREAS, engineers contribute to the education of our young people, especially in the fields of mathematics and science, to meet even greater challenges in the future;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim the month of February 2007, to be

I D A H O   E N G I N E E R S   M O N T H
 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 2^nd day of February in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.       

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE