ECE/ORIE
Professional Development
URMC
CS/IS
Tech Culture
100
In electrical and computer engineering, this acronym refers to the board used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components.
What is a Printed Circuit Board?(PCB)
100
This is the recommended number of pages a resume should have for most students and early-career professionals.
What is one page?
100
This year marks the founding of the student organization at Cornell University dedicated to supporting underrepresented minorities in computing.
What is 2016?
100
This Cornell-based nonprofit, founded by a former URMC leader, expands support for minority CS students nationwide.
What is LeetCode?
100
A common stereotype about people in the tech community jokes about neglecting this everyday routine.
What is showering?
200
This notation is used to describe the worst-case time complexity of an algorithm, expressing how its runtime grows as the input size increases.
What is Big-O notation?
200
The abbreviation is commonly used to structure responses to behavioral interview questions
What is Situation, Task, Action, and Result? (STAR)
200
This URMC end-of-semester General Body event, themed around a “Family Feud” style game night, serves as a fun and competitive grand wrap-up for members at Cornell University—this is the date it takes place.
What is May 1st, 2026?
200
This data structure operates on a “first in, first out” principle.
What is a queue?
200
A person who fully optimizes their profile, highlights their experience, and actively posts content on a networking platform is often described using this term.
What is a LinkedIn Warrior?
300
On this prototyping device, the long horizontal rows along the edges are typically used for power distribution, while the central vertical columns are internally connected in groups to allow components to share nodes without soldering.
What is a breadboard?
300
These major diversity-focused tech conferences, attended by URMC students during the fall semester, provide opportunities for networking, career fairs, and professional development while connecting underrepresented students with leaders in computing.
What are SHPE, AfroTech, and Tapia?
300
These two student leaders currently serve as co-presidents of URMC at Cornell University.
Who are Kaelem and Bernebus?
300
When designing a website, developers typically account for these two types of screen layouts to ensure responsiveness across devices.
What are narrow and wide screens?
300
This professor, known for driving a Jeep Wrangler, is passionate about teaching and still holds class even during a snowstorm.
Who is Walker White?
400
This algorithm finds the maximum flow in a network by repeatedly searching for paths from source to sink where additional flow can be pushed.
What is the Ford–Fulkerson method?
400
This cognitive bias can cause candidates to doubt their abilities despite evidence of their success, often impacting interview performance.
What is imposter syndrome?
400
This Cornell student organization dedicated to supporting underrepresented minorities in computing structures its mission around three core pillars
What is Academic Support, Community Building, and Professional Development?
400
In languages like Python and JavaScript, this type of function is defined without a name and is often used inline for short operations, such as in functional programming patterns like map and filter.
What is a lambda function (or anonymous function)?
400
This informal term describes writing code quickly and intuitively, often relying on trial and error and AI rather than structured planning.
What is vibe coding?
500
This fundamental relationship in electrical engineering defines a linear proportionality between voltage, current, and resistance, forming the basis for analyzing resistive circuits.
What is Ohm’s Law?
500
This often-overlooked factor can make or break a candidate’s performance in a technical interview, even if their final solution is correct.
What is communicating your thought process?
500
This Cornell-based nonprofit, founded by a former URMC leader, expands support for minority CS students nationwide.
What is ColorStack?
500
In Python, this runtime exception is raised when a boolean condition—intended by the developer to always hold true at a specific point in the code—evaluates to false, often serving as a debugging safeguard during development.
What is an AssertionError?
500
This area in the US is widely recognized as the global center for AI innovation, hardware development, and the highest concentration of unicorn startups.
What is Silicon Valley / the San Francisco Bay Area?
