Engineering Basics
What does CAD stand for?
What is Computer-Aided Design.
Who is the Inventor of the telephone?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
What is the derivative of x²?
What is 2x.
How many faculties are at UTECH?
Eight
The 1995 film famous for the line 'Houston, we have a problem' and showcased real NASA engineering challanges like limited Oxygen, improvised CO2 scrubbers, and power rationing.
What is Apollo 13?
Name the three main types of stress in materials?
What is Tensile, Compressive, Shear.
Who designed the first practical steam engine?
Who is James Watt.
What is the SI unit of force?
What is Newton (N)
How many campuses does utech have?
Four
This musician, known for hits like Stronger, famously sampled Daft Punk's 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger'
Who is Kanye West?
What does the first law of thermodynamics state?
What is Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
Who is considered the Father of Modern Civil Engineering?
Who is John Smeaton.
If a car accelerates at 2 m/s² for 5 seconds, what is its final velocity?
10m/s
Name two olympic gold medalist that attended UTech.
Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
How many video game lets players design and test rockets using unrealkistic physics simulations, inspiring many future aerospace engineers?
What is Kerbal Space Programme?
In circuits, what law relates current, voltage, and resistance?
What is Ohm's Law.
Who invented the light bulb?
Who is Thomas Edison.
State Newton’s 2nd law in equation form.
F=ma
Who is the current usu 1st VP Academic affairs?
Kishawna Roberts.
Auto-Tune, made popular by artists like T-Pain, is based on this magthematical transformation that engineers also use in signal processing to analyze frequencies in sound and electrical systems?
What is Fourier Transform?
Name two differences between mechanical and civil engineering?
Mechanical → machines, engines, moving parts
Civil → structures, bridges, buildings, infrastructure
Who designed the first airplane?
Who are the Wright brothers.
How many degrees are in a radian?
57.3 degrees
What is the maximum amount of credits a student can do a semester.
What is 21 credits.
On this Classic TV show, two hosts and their team used engineering, science, and a lot of explosions to test whether urban legends were a fact or fiction?
What is MythBusters.