Mechanical
This type of engineer designs and improves machines like cars, bicycles, robots, and airplanes.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
This force pulls a paper airplane back down to the ground.
What is gravity?
This is the strongest basic shape used in engineering structures.
What is a triangle?
This is the process engineers use to solve problems and improve designs.
What is the Engineering Design Process?
What did Ms. Christmas get a bachelor's degree in?
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
This type of energy is stored at the top of the first roller coaster hill.
What is potential energy?
This force is the forward push you give a paper airplane when you throw it.
What is thrust?
Engineers combine many triangles together to create these strong structures used in bridges.
What are trusses?
Engineers usually build one of these before making the final product.
What is a prototype?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
As a roller coaster speeds downhill, this type of energy increases.
What is kinetic energy?
This force slows a paper airplane down because it pushes against it.
What is drag?
Architects make sure buildings are not only beautiful but also these two important things.
What are safe and useful?
Before testing your prototype, you must complete this step.
What is Build a Prototype?
This programming language shares its name with a type of snake.
What is Python?
Engineers try to balance these three things when designing a roller coaster.
What are speed, safety, and fun?
This upward force is created because air moves faster over the top of a wing than underneath it.
What is lift?
Unlike squares and rectangles, triangles resist changing this when force is applied.
What is their shape?
This final step of the design process focuses on making improvements after testing.
What is Refine and Improve?
This letter is the only one that does not appear on the periodic table.
What is J?
Name a type of science mechanical engineers may study.
What is Physics, engineering, thermodynamics, mechanics, chemistry?
This specially shaped wing design is an example of aerodynamics because it helps air flow efficiently and generates lift.
What is an airfoil?
Name 2 objects a civil engineer might work with.
What are bridges, tunnels highways, dams, construction equipment and tools, cars, building materials, etc?
An engineer changes three things at once while testing a prototype. Why is this considered poor testing?
What is because they won't know which change caused the result?
Riddle:
The more you take away from me, the larger I become.
What is a hole?