ISU History
Improve You History
College of Engineering
Engineering Innovation
Myths and Miscellaneous
100

The year Iowa State was established

What is 1858?

100

The number of current members on the Improve You Steering Committee

What is 6?

100

Iowa State's first Dean of Engineering

Who was Anson Marston?

100

Iowa State University officially opened in 1869 as the nation's first institution to accept this Act to become a land-grant university

What is the Morrill Act?

100

It's believed that this will happen if students step on The Zodiac in the Memorial Union

What is flunk their next exam?

200
The oldest structure on campus

What is the Farm House?

200

The two staff groups involved in the Improve You Mentoring Program

What are the College of Engineering and WiSE?

200

The total number of engineering bachelor degrees offered at Iowa State

What is 15?

200

The name of the world's first electronic digital computer that was built on the Iowa State campus

What is The ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer)?

200

The name VEISHEA came from these colleges

What are Vet Med, Engineering, Industrial Science, Home Economics, and Agriculture?

300

The three original college colors

What are silver, yellow, and black?

300

The year Improve You was established

What is 2014?

300

The first two engineering majors offered at Iowa State

What are civil and mechanical engineering?

300

In the 1960s, Iowa State agricultural engineering professor, Wesley Buchele, and a group of student researchers invented the first baler to produce this

What is round hay bales?

300

A tradition that started two years before VEISHEA came into existence involves selling approximately 9,000 of these

What are cherry pies?

400

The commonly known name given to the Hub when it was a waiting room for the Ames and College Railway

What is the Dinkey Station?

400

The two current chairs of the Improve You Mentoring Program

Who are Cindy Frame and Deanna Harper?

400

The height of the Marston water tower

What is 168 feet?

400

The first engineering degree in this discipline globally was granted at Iowa State University in 1910

What is agricultural engineering?

400

The number of bells in the Campanile

What is 50?

500

The original name of Iowa State University

What is the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm?

500

The topic of our January program

What is productive conversations?

500

The first engineering hall built on Iowa State's campus

What is the Laboratory of Mechanics?

500

Iowa State University is home to the process that produces the world's finest cheese of this variety

What is blue cheese?

500

In 2001, Iowa State set a Guinness world record for the largest of this snack

What is Rice Krispy Treat?

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