Black Inventors
Garret Morgan was a Black inventor born into a family of freed slaves. After witnessing a terrible traffic accident, he invented this item to help cars know when to stop and go at an intersection.
What is a traffic light?
This “Hidden Figure” calculated flight trajectories for NASA’s early space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson
Ronald Yancey graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1965, the first Black student to earn a degree from GT. He was initially denied admission several times and often required to complete additional coursework compared to his white classmates. He has a statue located in this building.
What is the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons.
Aluminum metal takes on this unit cell, which has a total of 4 atoms.
What is FCC
This person is the current chair of MSE.
Who is Dr. Natalie Stingelin
This Black inventor became America’s first female self-made millionaire. She made her riches from selling hair care and cosmetic products.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Gladys West’s work in mathematics helped create this critical piece of technology for navigation
What is GPS?
Jacqueline Jones Royster served as the Black dean at Georgia Tech from 2010 to 2019 of this college that doubled its enrollment during her tenure.
What is Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts?
On a stress-strain curve, where elastic deformation ends.
What is the yield point/yield stress?
This senior admin professional is known for going above and beyond helping students and staff book rooms in Love and MRDC.
Who is Desiree Oglesby?
This Black inventor created over 300 inventions using peanuts including cosmetics, dyes, and plastics.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Kizzmekia Corbett, an immunologist, played a critical role in creating a vaccine for this highly infectious disease
What is Covid 19?
Bill Stanley was the first Black student to graduate from Georgia Tech with a degree in architecture in 1972. Along with his wife Ivenue, he helped design this center for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
What is the Olympic Aquatic Center (McAuley Aquatic Center)
This occurs with dislocation of motion, appearing as mirror images of slip planes in the material.
What is twinning? Whats up twin? We twinninem
This lecturer was a previous Material Advantage president.
Lonnie Johnson is an aerospace engineer who graduated from Tuskegee University and went on to work for the U.S. Air Force and NASA. Despite his numerous accomplishments towards the aerospace industry, he is best known for inventing what popular kids toy?
What is the SuperSoaker?
Shirley Ann Jackson invented technology that helped make caller ID possible. She was also the first Black woman to earn a PhD in physics in 1973 at this university.
What is MIT
Ford C. Greene, Ralph A. Long Jr., and Lawrence Williams became the first Black students to enroll at Georgia Tech. They enrolled in this year.
What is 1961
This testing method compares a sample to a reference pan, destroying the material through heating and cooling cycles to produce a heat flow curve.
What is a DSC, Differential Scanning Calorimeter
This person is the new chair for graduate studies and does cool research on auxetic materials.
Who is Dr. Shofner
This popular idiom comes from railroad engineers only wanting to use authentic oil drip cups made by Black inventor Elijah McCoy in the 19th Century.
What is “the real McCoy”?
Mae Jemison was the first Black woman to travel to space aboard this space shuttle.
What is Space Shuttle Endeavor (1992)
In 1980, Dorothy Cowser Yancy was the first Black faculty member to be tenured as a full professor at Georgia Tech. She was tenured as part of this school
What is School of Social Sciences
This is the packing ratio of FCC and HCP, the closest atoms can be spaced together.
What is 0.74?
She is known as come journey with me on youtube
Who is "Shirley Manchester"