CIVIL ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
ENVIORNMENTAL ENGINEERING
100

This type of engineer helps design bridges, roads, building, and even parks.

What is a civil engineer?

100

This part of a machine looks like a toothed wheel and helps transfer motion.

What are gears?

100
What are the key parts of a simple circuit?

What are 

  • Battery

  • Wires

  • Switch

  • Lightbulb

100

What planet is known as the Red Planet?

What is Mars?

100

What is sustainability?

What is meeting our needs without hurting the planet for the future?

200

Before building something, civil engineers must think about shape, design, and this important thing that holds everything together.

What are materials?

200

In a catapult, what energy change happens when the spoon is released?

What is potential energy turns into kinetic energy. 

200

What part of a circuit stores or gives power?

What is a battery?

200

 What part of a spacecraft helps it land gently on Mars?

What is a landing system?

200

Where are the Bosco Verticale buildings located?

What is Milan, Italy?

300

This is the strongest shape engineers use when building towers or bridges.

What is a triangle?

300

What energy pulls things down a ramp?

What is gravity?

300

What happens to the metal leaves ( the two pieces of aluminon foil) on an electroscope when they feel a charge?

They move apart.

300

What Canadian robotic arm can grab tools and fix spacecraft in space?

What is the Canadarm3?

300

What is one challenge of using renewable energy?

What is the sun and wind aren’t always available? (Also acceptable: expensive, space, storage issues)

400

Name two things you can add to a park to make it more sustainable.

What are solar panels, LED lights, drought-tolerant plants, smart irrigation, etc.

400

 What do engineers change to make a machine stronger or more efficient?

What is the design (or materials)?  

400

What’s the difference between series and parallel circuits? Can you draw it?

Series: one path. Parallel: multiple paths.

400

Name two things a Mars Rover must do on the surface.

What is move on:

rough terrain

carry samples

take pictures

explore, etc.

400

What is one of the names of the UBCO’s main residences we visited on the tour?

What are Purcell, Skeena, and Nechako?

500

You're designing a tower with only spaghetti, marshmallows, and string. The tower keeps collapsing when it gets tall. Name two design changes you could make to help it stand strong and explain why they work.

What is:

  • Use triangle shapes to distribute weight evenly (strong shape)

  • Make a wider base to improve stability

  • Tie string tighter to increase tension

  • Use marshmallows more carefully so they don't bend too much

500

Gears can even be found in nature: a type of bug called a ________ uses tiny gears in its legs to jump

What is a planthopper

500

In Arduino code, what does digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); do?

What is it turns the LED off.

500

Why must space robots like Canadarm3 be extra precise?

Because even small mistakes in space can be dangerous.

500

 What is one reason oil spills are harder to clean up than car pollution?

What is oil doesn’t naturally break down in the environment?

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