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This common construction material is made by combining cement, water, and aggregates.
What is concrete?
This branch of engineering focuses on machines, motion, forces, and energy.
What is mechanical engineering?
Computers represent information using these two binary digits.
What are 0 and 1?
This production method moves a product through a sequence of workstations as it is assembled.
What is an assembly line?
NDSU athletic teams are known collectively by the name of this large, shaggy mammal.
What are the Bison?
Civil engineers design these structures to carry roads or railways over obstacles such as rivers and valleys.
What are bridges?
Farmers use this large machine to harvest and separate crops such as wheat, corn, and soybeans.
What is a combine?
Named after a German physicist, this is the unit used to measure electrical resistance.
What is an ohm?
This manufacturing philosophy focuses on maximizing customer value while eliminating waste.
What is lean manufacturing?
These are NDSU’s two official school colors.
What are green and gold?
This underground system carries wastewater away from homes and buildings for treatment.
What is a sanitary sewer system?
Intake, compression, power, and exhaust are the four stages of this common type of engine.
What is a four-stroke engine?
Often called the “brain” of a computer, this component executes program instructions.
What is the CPU or central processing unit?
Available production time divided by customer demand determines this required production pace.
What is takt time?
NDSU is located in this North Dakota city.
What is Fargo?
Who uses a total station to measure angles and distances when establishing precise construction locations.
Who are surveyors?
This type of energy is produced when agricultural waste or manure is broken down in an anaerobic digester.
What is biogas?
This dangerous condition occurs when electrical current travels through an unintended, very low-resistance path.
What is a short circuit?
This Japanese term means designing a process so errors are prevented or immediately detected.
What is poka-yoke or mistake-proofing?
NDSU was founded in this year—the same year North Dakota had its first full year as a state.
What is 1890?
Commonly abbreviated BOD, this water-quality measurement estimates how much oxygen microorganisms consume while breaking down organic matter.
What is biochemical oxygen demand?
According to this fluid principle, an increase in fluid velocity is generally accompanied by a decrease in pressure.
What is Bernoulli’s principle?
This number system, commonly used in computing to represent colors and memory addresses, uses the digits 0–9 and the letters A–F.
What is hexadecimal?
In manufacturing, this workstation or process limits the production rate of the entire system.
What is a bottleneck?
Before becoming North Dakota State University in 1960, NDSU was officially known by this name.
What is North Dakota Agricultural College, or NDAC?