Types of Engineering (kind of niche and specialised)
She is a Polish scientist, notable for her discovery and research into the element, Radium, but eventually passed due to exposure to that very element's intense radiation.
Who is Madame Marie Curie?
First Law of Thermodynamics that states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. It is also known as this.
What is Law of Conservation of Energy?
This is a watercourse engineered to carry water from a source to a distribution point? Used today to describe pipes, canals, and tunnels, it was most famously used in Ancient Rome, construction that stands to this day.
What are aqueducts?
Head of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics from 1949 to 1958, she was known as a human computer and a genius mathematician. She was also the first African-American person to hold a managerial role at NASA. Her and her colleague's lives inspired the book and the movie adaptation "Hidden Figures".
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
This law is the Bread and butter of mechanical physics - according to Corbin Covault, it is the answer to all of your problems. It is typically used in the context of forces and free-body diagrams.
What is N2L or F=ma?
It is a series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers and fascinatingly, you can find this in nature such as branching in trees.
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
This primitive technology was the foundation for the mechanisation of agriculture as well as serving as a key part of any kind of travel/transportation. (Hint: It is part of a common phrase, "Don't Re-invent...")
What is the wheel?
This Austrian physicist helped discover the element Protactinium. She is the first person to describe and coin the phrase, "nuclear fission" which inspired the Manhattan Project and Robert Oppenheimer's work with nuclear weapons.
Who is Lise Meitner?
This theory, also known as Einstein's theory of gravity, explains that space and time are relative, and all motion must be relative to a frame of reference. It emphasise that the laws of physics always hold true.
What is the theory of relativity?
Topping accelerating speeds of 128 mph, engineers at Intamin Amusement Rides designed the 456-foot Kingda Ka – which opened as the world’s tallest and fastest rollercoaster at what numerically-named “Great Adventure” at this amusement park in New Jersey.
What is Six Flags?
This British chemist and X-ray crystallographer discovered the structure of DNA. Her creation of Photo 51, an X-ray based fibre diffraction of a paracrystalline gel, demonstrated DNA's double helix structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This principle states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body submerged in fluid (partially or fully) is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces (ie the changing of the fluid level shows the mass of that object).
What is Archimedes' Principle?
This is the largest non-profit international educational and service organisation in advocating for women in engineering. It provides opportunities in research, internships, networking and also hosts one of the biggest national conferences.
What is SWE!!
This is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Located in Switzerland, it was built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research and consists of a 27km ring of superconductor magnets.
What is the Large Hadron Collider/CERN Supercollider?
This mathematician and computer pioneer is sometimes regarded as one of the first ever programmers. She was a protégée of Charles Babbage, inventor of the first computer called Analytical Engine. She contributed significantly to its development as well as developing an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This fluid dynamics principle named for Swiss mathematician in 1738 states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the revolutionary V-type three-point version of this safety object in 1959 (hint: it's found in cars).
What is a seatbelt?