CWRU 101
The year CWRU was founded
What is 1826?
SWE’s mission focuses on empowering women to achieve their full potential in this field
What is Engineering?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize
Who is Marie Curie?
Engineering discipline involving transforming raw materials into safe, useful products like pharmaceuticals, fuels, and chemicals
What is Chemical Engineering?
The most common color on national flags
What is red?
What the pathway on campus designated with a series of 1s and 0s is called
What is the Binary Walkway?
The year the Society of Women Engineers was founded
What is 1950?
She developed an early algorithm for an Analytical Engine and is often considered the first computer programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
An on-campus innovation center, makerspace and entrepreneurship ecosystem
What is Sears think[box]?
The fast food restaurant with the most locations across the US
What is Subway?
The famous 1887 experiment conducted by researchers on campus to help establish that the speed of light is constant in all directions
What is the Michelson-Morley experiment
The city and year of the first annual SWE conference
What is New York City, 1951?
NASA's "human computer" whose calculations helped early U.S. space missions (Also the protagonist of Hidden Figures)
The location of the first FIFA World Cup
What is Uruguay?
The separate college for women created by the University in 1888
What is The College for Women / Flora Stone Mather College for Women?
A group SWE opened its membership to in 1976
What are men?
The first American woman to travel into space in 1983
Who is Sally Ride?
The name of the force that makes boats and balloons float
What is buoyant force?
The most downloaded app in 2025
What is ChatGPT?
The two institutions that joined together to create CWRU
What are Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology?
The dates and location of the SWE Annual Conference 2026
What is November 5-7, 2026 in Boston, MA?
The first president of SWE
Who is Beatrice Hicks?
A kind of fluid that does not follow the Law of Viscosity (A liquid whose thickness, or viscosity, changes when you apply force, pressure, or shaking)
What is a non-Newtonian fluid?
The colors of the Olympic Rings
What are blue, yellow, black, green, and red?