Easy
What is the name of the simple machine that consists of a wheel with a rope or belt around it, used to lift loads?
Pulley
What device is used to store energy in a mechanical system through rotational inertia?
A Flywheel
What type of heat transfer occurs through direct molecular contact without the movement of the material?
Conduction
What was BYU-I called before it was a 4 year university?
Ricks College
This Serbian-American engineer is famous for inventing the Alternating Current (AC) motor and has a modern electric car company named after him
Nikola Tesla
What is the term for a device that reduces friction between moving parts?
Bearing
What is the unit of force in the SI system?
Newton
In an internal combustion engine, what component is responsible for mixing air and fuel before combustion in older carbureted engines?
Carburetor
What was the mascot for Rick’s college?
The Vikings
Which inventor holds over 1,000 U.S. patents, including the incandescent light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Which room has the 3d printers
105B
In thermodynamics, which law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed?
The First Law of Thermodynamics
What is the name of the dimensionless number that determines whether fluid flow is laminar or turbulent?
Reynolds Number
Which notable alumni of Brigham Young University–Idaho is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in wrestling?
Rulon Gardner
While Steve Jobs was the face of the company, this "Woz" was the mechanical and electrical engineering genius who actually built the Apple I and Apple II computers.
Steve Wozniak
Which room you can shape metal into what ever you want, so long as its a cylinder?
machine shop
Room 214
What is the term for the type of energy stored in a compressed spring?
Elastic potential energy
In material science, what is the phenomenon where a material deforms permanently under constant stress over time?
Creep
What year did BYU-I stop burning coal and switched to natural gas for energy production on campus?
2016
American aviation pioneers and inventors who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Orville and Wilbur Wright
What is ASME
ASME stands for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
In what year was ASME founded?
1880
What is the gravitational force of Earth
9.8 m/s2 or 32 ft/s2
In what year did Ricks College first operate as a four-year institution before reverting to a two-year junior college?
From 1948 to 1956
Who is often called the "Father of Mechanical Engineering" due to his improvements to the steam engine?
James Watt