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100

The name of the BCET Dean. 

Who is Dr. Jeffery Fergus

100

This discipline of engineering is often called the "Mother of all Engineering" because it's the oldest.

What is Civil Engineering

100

This quantity requires both a direction and a magnitude

What are vector Quantities 

100

The resulting color if you mix all colors of light. 

What is white

100

The formula for the slope of a line.

What is Rise/Run

200

The oldest Engineering Student Organization on campus

What is ODU motorsports (1972)

200

This popular toy was originally an accidental invention by a naval engineer trying to create a spring to stabilize ship instruments.

What is a slinky

200

The full name associated with the acronym CAD

What is computer-aided design

200

The speed of light

What is 3 x 10 ^8 m/s

200

The letter of a constant do you get after integration. 

What is C

300

ODU MOVE is an example of this type of isolated system on top of physical hardware. 

What is a virtual machine

300

Thomas Edison is responsible for many inventions, including the first tattoo pen, but what is his most famous invention?

What is a lightbulb

300

This structural member is designed primarily to resist forces applied laterally to its axis.

What is a beam 

300

A tool used to solve physics and engineering problems by focusing only on the forces affecting the given object. 

What is a free-body diagram 

300

This identity lets you express complex numbers as exponentials. 

What is Euler's identity

400

Old Dominion University is the first and only university in the nation to offer this new undergraduate major

What is Modeling & Simulation Engineering

400

This unit of radioactivity measurement is named after what person who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person ever to win one twice.

Who is Marie Curie 

400

This dimensionless number is used in fluid mechanics to predict whether flow is laminar or turbulent.

What is a Reynold's Number

400

A passive component with two conductive plates separated by a dielectric. 

What is a capacitor 

400

A transformation that converts time to the s-domain. 

What is the Laplace Transformation 

500

This organization, which has a student chapter on campus, is the world's largest technical, professional organization

What is IEEE 

500

In "The Martian," a stranded Mark Watney communicates with NASA using this base 16 numeral system. 

What is Hexadecimal

500

Named after a Scottish engineer, this unit of power was originally used to compare the output of steam engines to the draft power of horses.

What is Horsepower

500

The proportionality constant that provides the relation between the energy of a photon and the frequency of its associated electromagnetic wave. 

What is Planck's constant

500

The geometric shape of a Pringle chip. 

What is a Hyperbolic Paraboloid

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