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San Luis Obispo
Cal Poly Engineering
100

The canoe in Engineering 13’s courtyard is made out of this material.

What is concrete?

100

The number of CENG majors.

What is 13?

100

The number of tours a CENG Ambassadors is required to give every quarter.

What is 2?

100

This is Johanna’s major.

What is Industrial?

100

The types of majors that can work in the machine shops.

What are all majors?

200

The effect the rubber ducks had on the water tanks in the Controls Lab.

What is no effect?

200

A major that a student should apply to as if they don’t know what type of engineering they’d like to pursue.

What is Mechanical Engineering?

200

This many minutes is how early you should arrive before the tour starts.

What is 10 minutes?

200

This is Trevor’s favorite song right now.

What is Autumn Leaves by Nat King Cole?

200

This is the largest major in CENG.

What is Mechanical?

300

The class of Cal Poly's clean room.

What is 1000?

300

A Mechanical Engineering concentration.

What is General, Manufacturing, HVAC&R, Mechatronics, and Energy Resources?

300

How to respond to a tour question you don’t know the answer to.

What is: Say you don’t know and refer them to a source that can answer the question

300

A challenge that involves three hikes in a single morning, then eating at Firestone.

What is the Tri-Tip Challenge?

300

Lecturers are required to provide this service to students.

What are office hours?

400

Cal Poly students constructed what original machine with stolen McDonald’s straws.

What is the wind tunnel?

400

Order of majors of electrical spectrum (most hands-on to least hands-on).

What are: EE, CPE, CS, SE?

400

A major that is not included in this tour but has engineering in its name.

What is ARCE, Agricultural Engineering, LAES?

400

This restaurant is “Coming Soon!” next to Vons on Broad Street.

What is Wingstop?

400

The number of classrooms in the Bonderson Project Center.

What is 0?

500

According to a lesson some ME students learned, this frequency equals that at which ice breaks.

What is the frequency at which helicopter blades break?

500

Two examples of General Engineering disciplines.

What are Chemical, Audio, Tissue, Product Design, Alternative Energy, Pre-Med?

500

The keys to the labs are found here.

What is the CENG Dean’s Office?

500

This store recently opened a large headquarters downtown.

What is Thrifty Beaches?

500

These three Engineering majors do not have concentrations

What are IE, Mfg, MATE, ENVE, CPE.

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