Famous Landmarks
Spanning the Golden Gate strait, this iconic suspension bridge opened in 1937 and was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by ASCE.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
In the 2015 animated movie Inside Out, the main character, Riley, moves away from this city, which features a world-famous orange suspension bridge.
What is San Francisco?
This chemical compound, found in coffee, energy drinks, and tea, is the unofficial primary fuel source for engineering students pulling all-nighters.
What is caffeine?
Approximated as 2.71828, this mathematical constant serves as the base for natural logarithms and describes continuous growth.
What is Euler's number (e)?
This common structural material is known for having high compressive strength but very low tensile strength.
What is concrete?
Completed in 1936 on the Colorado River, this massive concrete arch-gravity dam was originally named Boulder Dam.
What is the Hoover Dam?
In the animated series Phineas and Ferb, the two brothers famously build this giant, loop-de-loop gravity-propelled transit track right in their own backyard.
What is a roller coaster?
This widely used open-source office software program is technically for "spreadsheets," but college students frequently abuse it to make pixel art, chore charts, and grade calculators.
What is Microsoft Excel?
This basic physical law states that an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.
What is Inertia (or Newton's First Law)?
This specific color of laser pointer or line tool is used by surveyors on campus because human eyes are naturally more sensitive to it in bright daylight than red.
What is green?
This historic 1930s art deco skyscraper in New York City is famous for its spire, which was originally intended to be a docking station for blimps and airships.
What is the Empire State Building?
In the video game Minecraft, you combine water with this volcanic substance to create obsidian blocks.
What is lava?
Non-engineering majors frequently confuse Civil Engineers with this profession, assuming they spend all day designing houses, choosing paint colors, and picking furniture.
What is an Architect?
This calculus operations concept represents the exact area under a curve on a graph between two specific points.
What is an integral?
This is the term for the boundary line between the unsaturated zone and the saturated zone underground.
What is the water table?
This iconic 19th-century New York suspension bridge was the first to use explosives in underwater caissons for its foundations, resulting in many workers getting "the bends."
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
In the TV show Prison Break, the main character Michael Scofield manages to escape a maximum-security prison because he holds a degree in this specific field?
What is Structural Engineering?
Rather than standard gold, the official, sunny secondary color of McNeese State University is paired with Royal Blue and specifically goes by this botanical name.
What is Sunflower Gold?
This fluid dynamics principle explains why air flowing quickly over an airplane wing creates lower pressure, allowing the heavy metal aircraft to achieve lift.
What is Bernoulli's principle?
This dense, dark substance—often confused with concrete—is the primary material used to pave over 90% of the roads and highways in America.
What is asphalt?
Located in San Francisco, this art deco suspension bridge is painted in a highly specific, custom-engineered shade of orange called this, chosen to blend with the natural surroundings and stay visible in heavy fog.
What is International Orange?
In the 1996 action film Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise's character famously fights a villain on top of a speeding bullet train inside this real-world undersea engineering marvel.
What is the Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel)?
Originally developed in 1985 as an internal project named "Odyssey," this software program is notoriously feared by engineering students for its tendency to crash right before a project is due, despite being the industry standard for 3D modeling.
What is AutoCAD?
Unlike normal stress which pushes or pulls directly against a surface, this specific type of stress acts parallel to the material's surface, sliding layers past one another (like a deck of cards).
What is shear stress?
ASCE was founded in this year, making it America's oldest national engineering society.
What is 1852?