Civil Engineering Facts
XE Officer/ Trivia
Water/ Environmental
Structures
Transportation
100
The world's tallest building
What is the Burj Dubai?
100
Practicality, Scholarship, Character, Sociablity
What are the four pillars of XE?
100
Zero degrees Celsius in Kelvin
What is 273.15K?
100
Directly proportional to stress
What is strain?
100
Number of sides on a stop sign
What is eight?
200
The wedge shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry arch
What is a keystone?
200
Historian of XE@UCI
Who is Cecilia Dominguez?
200
Relates head-loss (or pressure-loss) due to friction along a given length of pipe to the average velocity of fluid flow
What is the Darcy-Weisbach equation?
200
Analytical tools used in conjunction with structural analysis to help perform structural design by determining the value of shear force and bending moment at a given point of an element
What is a shear-moment diagram?
200
The amount of time allotted to a driver's perception/reaction
What is 1.0 s?
300
A situation where one contractor does the entire job of designing and building a project
What is design-build?
300
The class and class standing required to join XE
What is junior and top third?
300
The ecosystem response to the excessive addition of artificial or natural substances, like nitrates and phosphates, through fertilizers or sewage, to an aquatic system. Also leads to oxygen- deprivation in these aquatic systems.
What is the Eutrophication (or hypertrophication)?
300
Describes a material's tendency to deform elastically when a force is applied
What is the Modulus of Elasticity?
300
An executive department within the U.S. state of California which aims to improve mobility across the state
What is Caltrans?
400
The largest dam in the world
What is Three Gorges Dam of China?
400
Colors of XE
What are purple and white?
400
The law of nature that describes the tendency of systems to move spontaneously in the direction of the equilibrium state (aka toward chaos and randomness)
What is the entropy?
400
Graphs the variation of a function (such as the shear felt in a structure member) at a specific point on a beam or truss caused by a unit load placed at any point along the structure
What are influence lines?
400
The tilting of roadway to help offset centripetal forces developed as the vehicle goes around a curve. Along with friction they are what keeps a vehicle from going off the road.
What is superelevation?
500
This city was home to the world’s first 4-way three color traffic light
What is Detroit?
500
Chi Delta Chi
What is the motto of XE?
500
The formation of bubbles in a liquid, typically by the movement of a propeller through it
What is cavitation?
500
A drawn round tool that helps determine the maximum shear and axial stress at a point
What is Mohr's Circle?
500
The order of the four layers of pavement from bottom to top
What is subgrade, subbase, base, and surface?
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