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

        WHEREAS, Idaho is home to some 7,181 licensed professional engineers who 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 currently are hundreds of students enrolled in colleges of engineering 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 February 17 through 23, 2008, to be

IDAHO ENGINEERS WEEK

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 15th day of February in the year of our Lord two thousand and eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-second and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred eighteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE