Inventions
Statistics
Math
Women's First
Refinery
100
Mary Anderson, noticing trolley drivers struggling to see past sleet, developed the first ______ and owned a patent for it. Later, it became a standard part of every car.
What are windshield wipers?
100
What percentage of women are employed in engineering occupations 2022? (Environmental) +- 5%
What is 32%
100
What is the quadratic formula?
what is used to find the roots (or solutions) of a quadratic equation?
100
Who was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie. She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her work on radiation.
100
Mechanical: This type of pump uses a rotating impeller to move fluids by converting mechanical energy into kinetic energy.
What is a centrifugal pump?
200
Nancy Johnson invented the first hand-cranked ________ in 1843 revolutionizing how we enjoy frozen treats.
What is an ice cream maker
200
What percentage of women are employed in engineering occupations 2022? (Chemical) +- 5%
What is 20%
200
What are the three primary methods of heat transfer?
The three primary methods of heat transfer are conduction, convection, and radiation
200
Who is considered the world's first computer programmer?
Who is Ada Lovelace? She wrote the first algorithm designed to be processed by a machine, specifically Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a proposed mechanical computer. While the engine was never fully built, Lovelace's work outlined a series of instructions, essentially a program, for the machine to perform complex calculations, demonstrating the potential of computers beyond simple arithmetic. 
200
Electrical: This backup power source kicks in automatically during a grid failure to maintain critical operations.
What is an uninterruptible power supply (UPS)?
300
Alice H. Parker was a pioneering African American inventor. She's best known for her invention of a revolutionary gas-powered ______ in 1919
What is a furnace? Alice's invention laid the foundation for modern central heating systems. Before her invention, most homes relied on wood or coal for heat.
300
What percentage of women are employed in engineering occupations 2022? (Mechanical) +- 5%
What is 10%
300
This type of bond exists when valence electrons are shared between atoms
What are Covalent bonds?
300
This African-American NASA mathematician was featured in Hidden Figures for her work on orbital mechanics.
Who is Katherine Johnson? Calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11, the mission which enabled man to take his first steps on the Moon. 
300
Controls: This signal standard is widely used in analog process control systems to represent 0–100% of a process variable.
What is 4–20 mA?
400
Martha Jane Coston was an American inventor and businesswoman who invented the _____, a device for signaling at sea
What is a flare?
400
What percentage of women are employed in engineering occupations 2022? (Electrical) +- 5%
What is 9%
400
Compounds that contain only carbons and hydrogens are called what? Give an example
Hydrocarbon; Methane, ethane, propane
400
Who was the first woman to earn a degree in engineering in the United States (1876)?
Who is Elizabeth Bragg? Graduated with a Civil Engineering Degree from the University of California at Berkley
400
Chemical: This unit operation in refinery wastewater treatment removes suspended oil droplets using gravity separation.
What is an API separator?
500
Tabitha Babbitt in the 19th century noticed an opportunity for improvement for the way wood was cut. The tool of choice at the time was a two-man whipsaw, where half the effort of moving the saw back and forth was wasted. She developed the _____ which could be connected to a water-powered machine to cut lumber.
What is the circular saw? 
500
What percentage of engineers are Women? (General) +- 3 %
What is 16%
500
This quantity is equal to Work/Time.
What is power?
500
The PE Act in Texas was initiated in the year 1937. What year was the first woman granted PE?
1938 by Leah Moncure in Civil Engineering
500
Environmental: This engineered system at a refinery collects and contains stormwater and potential spills from process areas.
What is a containment dike?