CUA School of Engineering
The first greek letter, often used to denote angular acceleration, fixed valued angles, or a series of coefficients.
Alpha (A α)
This is the first derivative of the function y = ln(x)
y' = 1/x
This inventor, most well known for the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera, held a world-record 1,093 patents
Thomas Edison
The acronym CAD, stands for this, representing the process of 3D computer modeling.
Computer Aided Design
This professor is the current chair of the electrical engineering department
Dr. Namazi
In the capital case, it signifies a sum of terms. In lower case it most commonly is used to represent mechanical stress
Sigma (Σ σ)
This special type of function is symmetric about the y-axis. Formally, it describes a function for which f(x)=f(-x). Examples include y=cos(x) or y=x2
Even Function
This German engineer created the first printing press in 1448, allowing for the first time in history for written ideas to be shared with the masses.
Johannes Gutenberg
This fictional element exists only in the Marvel universe. It is used in Ironman's suit and Captain America's shield among other things
Vibranium
This member of the ME department teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer.
Dr. Bomela
This greek letter is commonly used for all types of physical coefficients, such as friction or viscosity
Mu (Μ μ)
The interior angles of a pentagon sum to this number of degrees
540o
This French engineer has the thermodynamic cycle describing a maximally efficient heat engine named after him.
Nicolas Carnot
A very inconvenient way to write this fundamental unit would be kgm2/s3
Watt (W)
Dr. John Judge first became dean of the school of engineering in this year
2017
This greek letter sometimes represents the time constant of a system, describing how long it takes a signal to decay by a factor of 1/e when the stimulus is removed. Perhaps equal to RC for a resistive-capacitive circuit
Tau (Τ τ)
This is the formula for the volume of a sphere of radius r
(4/3)πr3
Eureka! Exclaimed this Greek engineer after discovering a method to easily measure the volume of irregularly shaped object's.
Archimedes
This was the worlds tallest man made structure for nearly 4000 years, only eventually being topped by the Eiffel Tower
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Current CUA President Peter Kilpatrick served as dean of the college of engineering at this university from 2008-2018
Notre Dame
When flipped upside down, the capital case of this greek letter becomes the nabla operator, commonly used in vector calculus
Delta (Δ δ)
The Maclaurin series is another name for a special case of this mathematical series commonly used to approximate a function by using a sum of its derivatives.
Taylor Series
In 1876, this Scottish-born inventor patented the first commercial telephone, a device that would revolutionize communication. He later founded his own telephone company which would eventually become AT&T
Alexander Graham Bell
This is the output of the following MATLAB commands
a = [1,2,3];
b = [1,2,3];
[A,~] = meshgrid(a,b)
A = [ 1,2,3 ; 1,2,3 ; 1,2,3 ]