Boehringer Ingelheim
Engineering
Site
Science
Math
100
What is the Ridgefield’s site primary function?
Research and Development
100
What do engineers not do? A. Design, testing, project management, planning B. Acting, Painting, Singing
B. Acting, Painting, Singing
100
What are the two towns where this site is located?
Danbury and Ridgefield.
100
Why do we put salt on sidewalks when it snows?
Adding salt to snow or ice increases the number of molecules on the surface and makes it harder for the water to freeze. Salt can lower freezing temperatures from 32 degrees to 15 degrees.
100
What word describes a number system with a base of two?
Binary
200
Who is the head of Region Americas ISEE?
Chris Grail
200
How long does a typical engineering degree take?
4 years.
200
What is the total area of our site? A. 1.5 Million ft2. B. 15 Acres
A. 1.5 Million ft2.
200
What is an electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals?
A Neuron
200
What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits an allen wrench?
The hexagon
300
What city in Germany is BI’s headquarters located?
The city of Ingelheim.
300
What are not engineering disciplines found on site? A. Mechanical, electrical, facilities, environmental, chemical B. Nuclear, Petroleum, Mining Engineering.
B. Nuclear, Petroleum, Mining Engineering.
300
What is the annual utility cost (gas, electricity) on site? A. $ 50,000 B. $ 13 million.
B. $ 13 million.
300
What causes a rainbow?
Sunlight, which contains all colors, is refracted, or bent, off the water droplets in the air at different angles, splitting into its different colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
300
What is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on without crossing it"?
Tangent
400
Who is the Boehringer Family?
The Boehringer family is the owner of the largest privately owned pharmaceutical company in the world.
400
What do engineers do?
Solve Problems.
400
What is the capacity of our main generators? A. 200 W B. 2 MW.
B. 2 MW.
400
Why is the sky blue?
Solar radiation sunlight is scattered across the atmosphere by a process called diffused sky radiation. Much more short-wave radiation (blue light) is scattered across the sky than long-wave radiation (red light).
400
What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
Obtuse
500
What does ISEE stand for?
Infrastructure, Safety & Environment, Engineering.
500
What does HVACR stands for?
Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration.
500
What is the cooling capacity we have on site? A. 14,000 Tons of cooling. B. 5,000 Tons of cooling.
A. 14,000 Tons of cooling.
500
An aqueous solution in which the concentration of OH– ions is greater than that of H+ ions is: A. basic B. acidic C. neutral D. in equilibrium
A. basic
500
What Greek mathematician noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
Pythagoras. Now we know the “star” is actually a planet, Venus.
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