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The presidents of the Cooper Union ASME Chapter

Who are Amber and David?

100

This ancient invention, first used in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE, revolutionized transportation and machinery

What is wheel?

100

This law of motion states that for every action force in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction

What is Newton's Third Law of Motion (Newton's Third Law, Third Law of Motion)?

100

This constant came to fruition when an apple supposedly fell on someone's head

What is g (gravitational constant, 9.81 m/s^2)?

100

This individual formerly worked as a mechanical engineer at Boeing before becoming a popular science show host

Who is Bill Nye?

200

A certification for engineering/engineering technology programs in college and university programs

What is ABET?

200

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) was founded in this year

When was 1880?

200

This structural framework supports loads prettyy well

What are trusses?

200

The force that resists the initiation of motion between two contacting surfaces that are at rest relative to each other

What is static friction?

200

Known as the mother of coding, this engineer developed the first mechanical computing

Who is Ada Lovelace?

300

This ME professor has won Jeopardy before

Who is Professor Rosen?

300

This major 20th-century engineering achievement allowed aircraft to exceed the speed of sound for the first time in 1947

What is breaking the sound barrier?

300

These three criterion ensure safe and optimized material performance in structural and mechanical engineering

What is Strength, Stability, and Stiffness (the three S's)?

300

This value relates the weight of a material per mole to the weight of its atomic structure

What is Avogadro's Number?

300

This innovator attended chemistry lessons at the Cooper Union

Who is Thomas Edison?

400

The ME degree was offered at the Cooper Union since this year

When was 1900?

400

This closed, repeating sequences of processes was named after the patentor of the first successful four-stroke engine in 1864

What is the Otto Cycle?

400

A thin layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a surface formed by the fluid flowing along the surface. The fluid's interaction with the wall induces a no-slip boundary condition (zero velocity at the wall)

What is a boundary layer?

400

This parameter is used in fluid mechanics to represent a fluid's resistance to flow and shear under gravity.

What is Kinematic Viscosity?

400

This engineer owned a glue factory, an iron rolling mill, created the first steel rocking chair, established an institution focused on adult education, and ran for president under the Greenback Party

Who was Peter Cooper?

500

Due to renovations, this was the only year that the commencement ceremony was not conducted in the Great Hall. 

What is 1973?

500

This device was first patented by Thomas Savery in 1698. A piston was added to it by Thomas Newcomen in 1712 to allow for the transmission of power to machinery

What is a steam engine?

500

The fifth state of matter

What are Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs)?

500

This constant has a value of 5.670367×10-8

What is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant?

500

This engineer was the president and CEO of IEEE, a member on the board of directors of ABET, a CTO of a company focused on explosive disruptive technologies, and a contributor to engineering education and research since 1995

Who is Barry Shoop?

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