Mechanical Engineering
This simple machine helps lift things, like when you use a rope and a wheel.
What is a pulley?
This is what powers your phone and lights up a room.
What is electricity?
These help cars go over rivers or roads.
What are bridges?
This device, which can process data, run programs, and perform various tasks, is an essential part of modern life.
What is a computer?
What is the Engineering Building at UH Manoa?
What is Holmes Hall?
This part of a machine reduces frictions utilizing lubricated metal balls to move smoothly. Typically found in wheels and fidget spinners.
What is a bearing?
This small power source is commonly found in devices like remote controls, smartphones and flashlights.
What is a battery?
Civil Engineers help design and build this type of land pathway for cars.
What is a road or highway?
This part lets you input commands and letters into a computer.
What is a keyboard?
The Hawaiian word for Engineering.
What is Wilikia?
This force resists motion when two surfaces rub together. It plays a key role in braking on cars and motorcycles.
What is friction?
This energy-efficient lighting technology is commonly used in homes and offices, and has a lifespan much longer than traditional incandescent bulbs.
This material, made of cement, sand and water, is commonly used for constructing buildings, roads and bridges.
What is concrete?
What is a CPU?
What NPN stands for.
What is Na Pua No'eau?
These toothed wheels work together to change the speed, direction, or force of motion in machines like clocks and bicycles.
What is/are gear(s)?
The type of circuit that occurs when their is a break, preventing the current from flowing. It is often caused by a switch being in the "off" position, or a disconnect in a wire.
What is an open circuit?
These plans show the design of a structure before it is built.
What are blueprints?
This is a set of instructions that a computer can follow.
What is a program or code?
The names of the SI in the room.
Who are Justin, Will and Brandon?
This type of energy is stored in objects when they are stretched, compressed like a spring, or placed in high places.
What is potential energy?
These are the two types of fundamental currents. (hint: Name of a rock band that sings Back in Black)
What is AC/DC?
This material is used in construction in order to reinforce concrete. (hint: Steel rods that run through concrete)
This word means to repeat a set of steps in code.
What is a loop?
What NHSEMP stands for.
What is the Native Hawaiian Science and Engineering Mentorship Program?