Continuing the Proud History of Top-10 Finishes for Massachusetts, Team Massachusetts continued a winning tradition by placing 8th out of 56 teams at the 2017 National MATHCOUNTS Competition in Orlando, Florida on May 14-15. Led by Coach Joshua Frost of the Clarke Middle School in Lexington, the 2017 team of Middle School students included Ben Epstein of Jonas Clarke School in Lexington, Richard Chen of William Diamond Middle School in Lexington, William Yue of the Pike School in Andover and Eric Yang from the Dover Sherborn Middle School in Dover.
MSPE invites all State Societies in the Northeast Region to save the date and encourage their members to attend the 2017 Northeast Regional Meeting & Conference from November 3-5, 2017. The theme will be: Energy Transportation and Manufacturing Solutions, and will feature unique professional development sessions and opportunities to network with engineers from throughout the Northeast.
After 48 years in the Boston mechanical and electrical consulting engineering field, MSPE member Michael Spence, PE, Executive Vice President of Bala|TMP Consulting Engineers, has announced his retirement as managing principal, effective this June. He will remain with the firm on a part time consulting basis.
Massachusetts State MATHCOUNTS Competition, and four of them — two girls and two boys, out of 136 students representing 36 Massachusetts middle schools — emerged as State Champions. This accomplishment earned each winner a full four-year scholarship to Wentworth University, as well as the coveted opportunity to represent our state at the National MATHCOUNTS Competition on May 7-10 in Washington, DC.
Since 1992, Michael Perrault, PE has been the Principal of P.M.P. Associates, LLC Civil Engineering & Land Planning Consultants. He served as President of the Southeast Chapter of MSPE in the late 1970s and currently serves as an MSPE Director. Michael is also a Life Member in the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has answered the questions below, so we may know him better. Thank you, Mike, for your membership and contributions to MSPE and the engineering profession.