Mechanical Engineering
This simple machine helps lift things, like when you use a rope and a wheel.
What is a pulley?
This is what powers your phone and lights up a room.
What is electricity?
These help cars go over rivers or roads.
What is a bridge?
This device, which can process data, run programs, and perform various tasks, is an essential part of modern life.
What is a computer?
What is the Engineering Building at UH Manoa?
What is Holmes Hall?
This part of a machine reduces friction utilizing lubricated metal balls to move smoothly. Typically found in wheels and fidget spinners.
What is a bearing?
This small power source is commonly found in devices like remote controls, smartphones, and flashlights.
What is a battery?
This material, made of cement, sand, and water, is commonly used for constructing buildings, roads, and bridges.
What is concrete?
This part of a computer is responsible for performing calculations and executing instructions, often called the “brain” of the computer.
What is the Central Processing Unit (CPU)?
What is the Hawaiian word for Engineering.
What is Wilikia?
This force resists the relative motion of two surfaces in contact and plays a key role in activities like walking, driving, and stopping objects.
What is friction?
This energy-efficient lighting technology is commonly used in homes and offices, and has a lifespan much longer than traditional incandescent bulbs.
What is an LED?
This type of structure is used to support loads horizontally and is commonly seen in bridges, buildings, and highways.
What is a beam?
This helps your computer remember things when it's on.
What is memory or RAM?
What does NPN stand for?
What is Na Pua No'eau
These toothed wheels work together to change the speed, direction, or force of motion in machines like clocks and bicycles.
What are gears?
This occurs when a break in the circuit prevents current from flowing, often caused by a switch being in the "off" position or a disconnected wire.
What is an open circuit?
Before building something, engineers sometimes test the soil to make sure it can hold up the weight of a building. This is called...
What is soil testing?
This is a list of steps a computer follows, like a recipe.
What is a program or code?
The SI in the room.
Who are Brandon, Justin and William?
This type of energy is stored in objects when they are stretched or compressed like in a spring or rubber band.
What is potential energy?
This type of current constantly changes direction and is typically used in household electrical systems and power grids.
What is alternating current (AC)?
This computer method helps engineers figure out how things like bridges and buildings will hold up under pressure.
What is a structural analysis?
This number system, composed of only 0s and 1s, is the foundation of all digital computing.
What is binary?
What is the Native Hawaiian Science and Engineering Mentorship Program