UMN Fun Facts
Science
Engineering
100
The mascot of the Twin Cities campus?
Goldy Gopher
100
If a kilometer 1000 meters and can be written as 103.
What is a nanometer
0.0000000001 or 10-9
100
What is the most efficient way for electricity to be generated in the US?
wind and solar
200
CSE stands for?
College of Science & Engineering
200
Worm Burrow Fossil
200
This term means "using compressed air or gas to transmit, store, and control energy"
pneumatics
300
Obi was the captain of this team in highschool
Track
300
What do you call a chemical process that uses direct electric current to drive a non-spontaneous reaction (often splitting compounds like water into hydrogen and oxygen)
electrolysis
300
This research group studies how psychology and human factors affect how people interact with systems.
Human First Labratories
400
Name all five UMN campuses
Crookston, Duluth, Morris, Rochester, Twin Cities
400
This term describes as a state where resources are allocated in a way that no single person can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
Pareto Efficiency
400
What are the four states of matter?
Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma
500
Shivani practiced this sport for 10 years
Taekwondo
500
What natural material makes penicillin?
Mold
500
1. work with a diverse array of technologies that are central to the way we store and handle information, sense the world, and integrate electrical devices into our society.
2. build a bridge between science and manufacturing, applying the principles of chemistry and engineering to solve problems involving the production or use of chemicals.
3. design and develop power-producing machines, such as internal combustion engines, steam and gas turbines, and jet and rocket engines.
4. Engineering application of the earth sciences to human problems that relate to the earth and earth systems.
5. determine the most effective ways to use the basic factors of production—people, machines, materials, information, and energy—to make a product or provide a service.
1. Electrical Engineering
2. Chemical Engineering
3. Mechanical Engineering
4. Geo Engineering
5. Industrial and Systems Engineering