Mechanical Engineering
What is the name of the force that allows planes to fly?
Lift
What is Healthcare vs Sickcare?
Healthcare is a misnomer. What we traditionally see as healthcare is actually sickcare, because you are treating your sickness.
Healthcare should focus on preventative health
What is a Systems Analysis?
Analyzing a Complex System and all its Attributes
What is the Philosopher's Stone?
material supposedly able to transmute base metals into gold
What is the Kardashev Scale?
Scaling System for categorizing civilization by their level of energy consumption
What does CAD stand for?
Computer Aided Design
What is Biomechanics
Study of the mechanics of living structures
What is Cradle to Cradle?
Materials are not thrown away (from cradle to grave), but are reused indefinitely or serve as “food” for new products.
What does it mean when the material is noncrystalline?
Atoms are stacked in irregular, random patterns
What is the Imitation Game?
a test – a human judge has a text conversation with unseen players and evaluates their responses.
To pass the test a computer must be able to replace one of the players without changing the results
Who coined the term "Robotics"
Isaac Asimov
What is NeuroEngineering?
Involves use of technology to study the function of various neural systems.
What is Survival Bias?
logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not
What is another name for Polymers?
Plastics
What was the first known computing language
Fortran
What does a refrigerator do with heat?
It pumps it out
Glasses, Crutches, Wheelchair, Bandaid
According to our guest speaker Lucas, what are the 3 Pillars of Product
Stakeholders, Users, Development Team
What is Luster
Property of the mineral response to light
What is the difference between Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning
Supervised: machines are trained using well “labelled” training data, and on the basis of that data, machine predict the output
Unsupervised: models are trained using unlabeled datasets and are allowed to act on the data without any supervision
What is Newton's Second Law
F=ma
Approximately how many times does the heart beat in a lifetime
2.5 Billion Times in a lifetime
What is the PMTE Framework?
People, Methods, Tools, Environment
What are the 6 different categories of materials
Metal, Ceramics, Glass, Polymer, Composites, Semiconductors
Where do we get pure Hydrogen for Hydrogen Fuel Cells?
Water