Vocabulary
The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures.
What is Computer Science?
Someone who studies the design, development, and production of air and spacecraft is called...
What is an Aerospace Engineer?
IEEE
What is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers?
Two American engineers, inventors and aviators, who made excellent contribution to the airplane industry.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
This basic technology not only made it easier to travel, but also served as the base for a huge number of other innovative technologies.
What is the wheel?
A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
What is data?
Someone who develops and improves the software programs and hardware that make computers run is called...
What is a Computer Engineer?
ASME
What is the American Society of Mechanical Engineers?
Pioneered the use of mass production for motor cars, helping to reduce the price and make cars affordable for the average American consumer.
Who is Henry Ford?
It's a composite material made from a mixture of broken stone or gravel, sand, Portland cement, and water, which can be spread or poured into molds and forms a mass resembling stone on hardening.
What is concrete?
An electrical device providing a path for current to flow.
What is a circuit?
Someone who specializes in designing and developing technology and methods for digging the earth’s surface to extract oil and gas is called...
What is a Petroleum Engineer?
AIAA
What is the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics?
English inventor of the first mechanical computers.
Who is Charles Babbage?
Before the Internet's ability to spread information, this invention helped information travel around the globe.
What is the printing press?
The quality of being exact.
What is precision?
Someone who applies earth sciences to human problems is called...
What is a Geological Engineer?
SPE
What is the Society of Plastic Engineers?
American inventor, and electronics engineer who co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs in the late 1970s.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
They provide one of the best clues in determining the age of historic buildings and was possible only after the development of techniques to caste and shape metal.
What is the nail?
The representation of the real world by a computer program.
What is a simulation.
Someone who is responsible for the design and construction of seagoing vessels and structures, focusing primarily on their internal systems is called...
What is a Marine Engineer?
What is the Society of Automotive Engineers?
French civil engineer who designed and built the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1889 and helped design the Statue of Liberty.
Who is Gustave Eiffel?
This invention consisted of a clay jar that was filled with a vinegar solution into which an iron rod surrounded by a copper cylinder was inserted to produce volts.
What is a battery?