Engineering 101
Hispanic Heritage
Famous Engineers
CSUN
SHPE CSUN
100

This engineering discipline focuses on designing machines, engines, and mechanical systems.

What is Mechanical Engineering

100

ispanic Heritage Month begins on this date each year.

What is September 15?

100
Famous American mechanical engineer on PBS.
Who is Bill Nye?
100
A toy that consists of ball bearings in the center of a multi-lobed flat structure made of metal or plastic.
What is a Fidget Spinner?
100

This major annual SHPE event brings thousands of students and professionals together and includes a large career fair.

What is the SHPE National Convention?

200

This unit, named after a famous scientist, measures electrical resistance.

What is an ohm?

200

A semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power

What is a transistor?

200
The first man on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
200
A great tool for solving algebraic and differential equations and for numerical integration.
What is MATLAB?
200

CSUN belongs to this SHPE region, which includes Southern California, Las Vegas, Arizona, and Hawaii.

What is Region 2?

300

$500: This SI unit measures power and is equal to one joule per second.
 → Watt

What is civil engineering?

300
This primitive technology made it easier for us to travel.
What is the wheel?
300
Tesla CEO.
Who is Elon Musk?
300
A narrow hermetically sealed glass tube marked with graduations and having at one end a bulb containing mercury or alcohol.
What is a thermometer?
300

This SHPE initiative focuses on accelerating and affirming Latina representation at all levels of STEM leadership.

What is SHPEtinas?

400
Application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes
Biomedical Engineering
400
Capturing and transporting this form of energy that results from the existence of charged particles (such as electrons and protons) statistically as an accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current.
What is electricity?
400
He invented the battery
Who is Nikola Tesla?
400
A computer-aided design program used for 2-D and 3-D design and drafting.
What is AutoCAD?
400

CSUN became one of SHPE’s earliest student chapters in this year.

What is 1976?

500
Advanced part of the marine technology studies, design and operations of man-made systems in the ocean and other marine bodies.
What is Ocean Engineering?
500
You can't live without it and it's right on your phone.
What is the Internet?
500
This Scottish scientist/inventor/engineer is known for inventing the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
500
Cortana's enemy
Who is Siri?
500

 Name three of SHPE's five pillars

What is Academic Development, Professional Development, Chapter Development, Leadership Development, and Outreach. 

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