"Tehniskā grafika"
Acronyms
Riddles
Types of engineering
100
How do you differentiate a circle from an ellipse, from a hyperbola, from a parabola?
Ellipses and circles are closed figure cuts. Hyperbolas and parabolas are not.
Ellipses have two DIFFERENT radii, but a circle has one.
Hyperbolas cut both the upper and lower cone, parabolas cut only one of them.
100
What is GMO?
GMO – Genetically Modified Organism
100
I am round, I turn and roll, I help machines move toward their goal. What am I?
wheel
100
It’s the profession where people bully ingredients into behaving. You stare at a tomato and say “be sauce,” and then invent a machine that squishes it 4,000 times per second. Which type of engineering is this?
Food engineering
200
What is STEAM?
STEAM - science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics
200
I turn things but I’m not a bolt, flat or cross I make things hold. What am I?
screwdriver
200
It’s the field where people persuade tiny angry lightning gremlins to move through spaghetti made of metal. Mostly it’s just poking circuits and hoping the smoke stays inside, because once the smoke gets out, the magic stops working. which type of engineering is this?
Electrical engineering
300
What is NATO?
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization
300
I hold information and I travel fast, without me, computers cannot last. What am I?
Flash drive
300
It’s the job where you convince enormous metal objects to ignore gravity out of sheer stubbornness, without overheating, vibrating itself into confetti, or wandering off in some tragic, expensive direction. which type of engineering is this?
Aerospace engineering
400
What is GIF?
GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
400
I spin fast to make holes or join things tight, without me, screws and bolts can’t fight. What am I?
Drill
400
It’s basically cooking, except the ingredients can explode, the oven is the size of a building, and the recipe is 800 pages of thermodynamics written by someone who hates joy. Which type of engineering is this?
Chemical engineering.
500
What is LASER?
LASER – Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
500
I show you information with light and sound, I help humans and machines get around. What am I?
Computer
500
They spend half their time doing math and the other half staring at cracks deciding whether they’re “normal cracks” or “oh-no-everyone-run cracks.”Which type of engineering is this?
Civil engineering