Stevens History
The year in which Stevens Institute of Technology was founded.
When is 1870?
The US city where ASME was founded.
What is New York City?
Newton's second law.
What is force = mass * acceleration?
The full name for INCOSE.
What is the International Council on Systems Engineering?
This scheduling tool uses horizontal bars to visualize project timeline and was invented in the early 1900s by a Stevens alumni.
What is the Gantt chart?
The first major ever offered at Stevens.
The first student chapter of ASME was founded 84 years ago at this New Jersey Technical school.
What is NJIT?
This standard file format for 3D printing represents 3D object surfaces using a mesh of triangles.
What is an STL?
A small group of systems engineering practitioners decided the discipline needed its own professional home, founded INCOSE in this Californian city.
What is San Diego?
A component of process that restricts the overall throughput of a system to the capacity of that single, slowest point.
What is a bottleneck?
Name of the ship that served as a residence hall from 1968-1975.
What is the S.S. Stevens?
The number of ASME members worldwide, to the nearest 10,000.
What is 70,000?
This part of an engine converts the linear motion of pistons into rotational motion, often to power wheels on a car.
What is a crankshaft?
Systems engineering exploded as a discipline in the 1960s due to this massive U.S. government project.
What is the Apollo program?
Instead of managing requirements in Word documents that get out of date, systems engineers now use this integrated software model that updates everything at once.
What is Model Based Systems Engineering?
The industries (name 1) that the Stevens family was heavily involved in and credited with helping develop.
What are the railroad and steamship industries?
The first set of codes written by ASME was for this piece of late 19th century technology.
What are boilers?
The law that relates pressure, volume, and temperature.
What is the ideal gas law?
This famous New Jersey research lab known for inventing the transistor and the laser is considered the birthplace of formal systems engineering.
What is Bell Telephone Labs?
The first stage of the V-model, which is one of the most iconic engineering design diagrams.
What is requirements building?
This man was the first president of Stevens, serving from its founding in 1870 until his death in 1902.
This professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens was the first president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Robert H. Thurston
The dimensionless value in fluid mechanics is used to predict flow regimes.
What is a Reynolds number?
This New England institution was a major early contributor to systems engineering through defense contracts.
What is the MIT Lincoln Laboratory?
The two-word methodology developed by Toyota focusing on eliminating waste.
What is lean manufacturing?