Environmental
This organization is supposed to ensure clean air and water in the US
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This is Sinan's favorite color
What is Purple?
When built, this California bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
These two professors are married to each other
Who are Professors Dimitrios and Adda Zekkos?
This agency is responsible for ensuring that workplaces are safe
What is OSHA?
This water treatment technology is used to produce potable water from seawater in arid coastal regions
What is desalination?
This professor is currently the chair of the CEE department and a Transportation professor
Who is Joan Walker?
This professor rides a scooter around campus
Who is Professor Ceferino?
Commonly identified for its greenish color and veiny mineralogy, this is the state rock of California
What is Serpentine?
This professor is known for occasionally giving out cash as a reward for getting quizzes right
Who is Professor Shami?
Name three or more criteria air pollutants
What is particulate matter, ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and lead?
This traditional metric, based on the number of vehicles passing through a road segment, is often criticized by public transit advocates
What is Car Throughput?
These mechanical devices are installed in buildings to reduce damage from seismic events
What are dampers, base isolators or seismic joints?
This is a graphical method is used to model 2-D groundwater flow through an aquifer
What is a Flow Net?
This process is used during preconstruction to reduce costs or improve performance without affecting quality
What is value engineering?
These are two of the types of reactors we consider in water treatment
What are Batch Reactors, PFRs and CFSTRs?
This phenomenon occurs when increasing roadway capacity leads to a proportional increase in traffic volumes
What is Induced Demand?
These structural systems are composed of beams and columns with rigid connections that resist lateral loads primarily through flexural action
What is a moment frame?
Berkeley CEE's satellite research facilities and laboratories are housed here
Where is the Richmond Field Station?
This portion of the contract sum is withheld from a contractor to ensure the project is substantially completed and all obligations are met
What is retainage?
This law relates the concentration of a gas in a liquid to its partial pressure in the gas phase
What is Henry's Law?
In traffic engineering, this diagram plots the relationship among speed, flow, and density
What is the fundamental diagram of traffic flow?
This method analyzes how structures respond to different earthquake frequencies and amplitudes using a set of acceleration curves
What is response spectrum analysis?
This principle states that soil strength and deformation are controlled by the stress carried by the soil skeleton, not by pore water pressure
What is Terzaghi's Effective Stress Principle?
This construction methodology improves workflow reliability by encouraging frontline supervisors and workers to collaboratively commit to achievable tasks
What is the Last Planner system?