Women in Engineering Stats
UML College of Engineering
Miscellaneous Science Facts
What Do Engineers Do?
Engineering Knowledge
100
What percentage of women are in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) fields (rounded to the nearest 5%)?
What is 25%
100
At UML, what is the newest discipline in engineering?
What is bio-med engineering
100
What shape is most important to a civil engineer when building bridges
What is a triangle
100
What do civil engineers do?
What is design, construct, supervise, operate, and maintain construction projects
100
Name 3 materials that are commonly used in material science engineering
What is ceramics, metals, composites, wood, concrete, glass, polymers/plastics
200
What percentage of women make up all the working engineers in the U.S. (rounded to the nearest 5%)?
What is 15%
200
What is The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Society of Women Engineers (SWE)?
UML has student organizations to represent minorities (like the Society of Women Engineers for women).
200
What type of manufacturing is 3D printing
What is additive manufacturing
200
What does a mechanical engineer do?
What is they design, build, and test everything from small parts (sensors, printer nozzles, etc) to large parts (space craft, large machinery)
200
Name 2 programming languages a computer engineer might use?
What is C/C++, MATLAB, Java, Assembly, VBScript, Erlang
300
The percentage of women with a doctorate in STEM fields compared to men is how much (rounded to the nearest 5%)?
What is 50%
300
How many master's programs are there at UML?
40+
300
In electricity, voltage is measured in volts while current is measured in what?
What is amperes (amps)
300
What do computer engineers do?
What is they analyze and design software, circuits, operating systems, and technological solutions.
300
What is the difference between a chemical engineer and a chemist?
What is chemists are more likely to develop materials and processes, while chemical engineers are more likely to take these materials and processes and make them more efficient, usable on a larger scale, and design how they go into a product.
400
Of all the working civil engineers, what percentage are women (rounded to the nearest 5%)?
What is 10%
400
Who is the Dean of the College of Engineering?
Dean Hartman
400
What is the chemical name for water or H20?
What is dihydrogen monoxide
400
What do bioengineers do?
What is they analyze and design solutions to problems in biology and medicine from small scale to large
400
Why would an industrial engineer be hired at an airport?
What is to make the check in lines faster, security shorter and more efficient, better ways to get checked bags after landing, ways to see if overhead compartment bag will fit
500
For each dollar a man working in a STEM field makes, how much does a women in a STEM field make (to the nearest nickel…i.e. 55 cents, 50 cents, etc)?
What is 85 cents
500
What ranking UML's National University Ranking (U.S. News & World Report)?
What is 152
500
How many bones are in the adult human skeleton?
What is 206
500
What does an industrial engineer do?
What is design and improve systems of people, materials, information, equipment, and energy
500
What is a bioengineered technology that does not affect anything living?
What is any assistive bioengineering such as a wheel chair, hearing aids, glasses
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