Civil Engineering
Specialties
Projects: CE or NOT?
Miscellaneous
Center of Gravity
200
What is considered to be the oldest engineering profession?
Civil Engineering
200
Which CE specialty would be concerned with roads the traffic traveling on them?
Transportation
200
Eiffel Tower
CE
200
Why do WEEBLES not fall down?
Their Center of Gravity is VERY LOW
200
In order to stand an object's WHAT must be above it's foundation or base?
Center of Gravity
400
True or false: Civil Engineers help design cars
False!
400
Which CE specialty would be concerned with how to build houses in a neighborhood and how to connect them to existing infrastructure?
Urban Planning
400
Prosthetic limbs
Not!
400
Does the Center of Gravity have to be INSIDE an object?
NO!
400
Where is Center of Mass not equal to the Center of Gravity?
In space (away from a planet)
600
True or False: Civil Engineers help design and build water towers.
True!
600
Which CE discipline would be concerned with building a dam to divert water for use as a water supply?
Water Resources
600
Traffic lights and the systems that control them
CE!
600
Where is the CG of a doughnut?
In the HOLE!
600
A human's CG is located...
Right below the belly button
800
True or False: Civil Engineers design and build sewer systems
True!
800
Which CE specialty would be concerned with building a subway system underneath an established city?
Geotechnical
800
Genetically creating a different species of tree
NOT!
800
Name the six simple machines
Lever Pulley Wheel/Axle Inclined Plane Wedge Screw
800
What happens when an object's CG is not located above the object's base or foundation?
It will fall
1000
True or False: Civil Engineers help design and build computer components
False!
1000
Which CE specialty would be concerned with building a skyscraper?
Structural/Construction
1000
Designing and building an interstate highway through the mountains
CE!
1000
The Metric System is based on what number?
10
1000
If you want an object to be less able to be tipped over, you would want its CG to be located where?
close to the ground.
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