Engineering Fundamentals
This term describes the resistance of a material to deformation or indentation
What is hardness?
This building in Abu Dhabi was purposely built to lean unlike the Leaning Tower of Pisa
What is Capital Gate?
The term "guising" refers to this common Halloween tradition
What is dressing up?
The year that NMSU was built
What is 1888
Director of the Manhattan Project
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This set of four equations, named after the Scottish physicist who formulated them, describes the behavior of electric and magnetic fields and their relationship to charges and currents
What are Maxwell's Equations?
These seven complex problems have been left unsolved since being introduced in a group of twenty-three in the year 1900. The seven problems have since been unsolved until one called the Poincare Conjecture was recently proven in 2002 and 2003
What are the Millenium Problems
This song is a traditional tune sung in the movie “Mean Girls” during the holiday talent show.
What is "Jingle Bell Rock"?
Formally known as Las Cruces College
What is NMSU?
An American Engineer and High-Fidelity Audio Pioneer, designed the high-efficiency folded horn loudspeaker. This product is still sold today.
Who is Paul Wilbur Klipsch
These mathematical expressions, derived from the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, relate partial derivatives of thermodynamic properties to each other
What are Maxwell's Relations?
This Physicist was given a Nobel Prize in Engineering for his discovery of radioactivity along with Madame Curie. Both he and Madame Curie had their names forever immortalized in Nuclear Physics/Engineering
Who is Henri Becquerel
Famous for turkey raising, this state sells the most Thanksgiving turkeys across America.
What is Minnesota
The year that Goddard Hall was built
What is 1913?
Father of the Modern Skyscraper
Who is Fazlur Rahman Khan
"To successfully use this science in most applications one must simultaneously consider at least three criteria: (1) quality, (2) timeliness, and (3) cost.". These are considered the fundamentals of what engineering degree according to Philip E. Hicks
What is Industrial Engineering?
This team revolutionized aerodynamics seen in four-wheel motor sport vehicles. The term developed from this advancement is referred to as "Ground Effect" (and was unironically the first thing that came up in my "Which team revolutionized aerodynamics in motorsports")
What is Lotus F1
This former United States president made Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day federal holidays during his presidency in 1870
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
An NMSU Astronomer that is best known for discovering Pluto
Who is Clyde Tombaugh?
Inventor(s) of the Internal Combustion Engine
Who is Nicolaus Otto
Who is Etienne Lenoir
Who is George Brayton
Who is Samuel Brown
Accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes correlated with heat and energy interconversions. This irreversibility is referred to in concept as the "arrow of time" and cannot be harnessed—Second Law of Thermodynamics
What is Entropy?
This company developed the world's first electronically programmable microprocessor, the 4004
Who is Intel
This song was intended for Church's Thanksgiving concerts. Written by James Lord Piermont in 1857 and has become the most popular song in this different holiday
What is "Jingle Bells"
This organization is comprised of 23 official clubs and is the largest group of active students in NMSU
What is the Engineering Student Council
Father of Classical Engineering; Influenced mathematics, physics, engineering, and astronomy for millennia
Who is Archimedes?