Materials
These are 3 materials used to make concrete.
What are aggregates, water and cement?
This tower is taller than the WTC. (Name one)
What are One World Trade (the freedom Tower), The Burg Khalifa, Sears Tower, etc.
These two things go into a well written problem statement.
What are the item you are designing and the requirement.
A horizontal component.
What is a beam?
Ms. Kelly's first name.
What is Anastasia?
Is a piling or a pier used for greater depths?
What is a piling?
This movie features the WTC being climbed by a large primate.
What is King Kong?
One of these is a restriction on a design and one is a necessity for a design. (two word answer)
What are requirements and constraints?
The place where a beam ad a column come together.
What is a joint?
These two teachers typically ride their motorcycles to school in the spring.
Who are Patel, Storkman, Mac, DB?
This is the alloy used to make re-bar. It is also a commonly used building material due to its strength.
What is steel?
These Brothers were the power brokers behind the financing of the WTC. There is a complex named after them where the NYC Christmas tree is raised every year.
Who are David and Nelson Rockefeller?
Looking at previous patents and government standards for a product would be part of this stage in the design process.
What is research and brainstorming?
This is an angle of 90 degrees as in the corner of a square.
What is a right angle.
This was the first building challenge we had in Engineering class the first week of school.
What is a tall tower made from straws, pipe cleaners and paper clip that can support a golfball
This is the word used to describe the inclusion of extra, non-essential building components
What is redundancy?
This is what Philippe Petit is famous for.
What is walking a tight rope across the Twin Towers?
The difference between a model and a prototype in engineering design.
What is a prototype must work/function, a model does not need to.
This is the perfect ratio for a right triangle.
What is 5:4:3?
The current CIE (formerly the library) was the original spot for the SRDS gym, theater, senior patio or faculty parking area.
What is the senior patio?
This is one of the materials used to make powdered cement.
What is clay or limestone?
The term "Skyscraper" was originally used to describe a fast plane, a tall horse, a redwood tree or a rocket?
What is a tall horse.
These are five of the main criteria used to evaluate design ideas in a criteria chart.
What are function, fit, safety, aesthetics, and cost or environmental impact.
This is the main difference between a tower and a building.
What is a building is built for habitation.
The term Engineering comes form a Latin word meaning this.
What is to create, generate or devise. Ingeniare.