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100

This is the number of national championships won by the UConn Women’s basketball team.

What is 11? 

100

This School of Engineering organization is a student team that is designing a propulsively landing rocket and competes in an intercollegiate aircraft design competition.

What is the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)?

100

This woman who holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT is known as the “Mother of the Internet” and invented the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).

Who is Radia Perlman?

100

This medical imaging technique uses powerful magnets to polarize and excite hydrogen nuclei of water molecules in human tissue, producing a detectable signal which is spatially encoded.

What is MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)?

100

This alumna who currently works at Medtronic was UConn SWE president last year (2021-22). 

Who is Courtney Luker? 

200

The site of Whitney dining hall used to be this type of institution during the Civil War.

What is an orphanage? 

200

This year was when the first MYO was held.

When was 1994? 

200

Jill Albertelli, President of Military Engines at this company, gave the keynote speech at the 2023 SWE Local Conference.

What is Pratt & Whitney?

200

These two ingredients impact beer ABV.

What are sugar and yeast?

200

An afterburner, also known as a reheat, is a device added to some jet engines and serves this purpose.

What is dramatically increasing thrust?

300

This minor, formalized in the Spring 2023 semester in response to student interest, is UConn’s newest academic minor addition.  

What is Cannabis Cultivation?

300

This professor who holds a PhD from the University of Illinois is the current Dean of the School of Engineering.

Who is Dr. Kazem Kazerounian?

300

Tu Youyou became the first Chinese woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015 for developing a drug to treat this disease.

What is malaria?

300

These three main means of deforming materials are commonly studied in both Materials Science Engineering and Civil Engineering courses.

What are Tension, Compression, and Shear?

300

Kyla Drewry, former UConn SWE secretary, is currently pursuing her PhD at this university. 

What is Northeastern University?

400

These are the schools and colleges within UConn (1/2 points for 5, full points for 10, 3/2 points for 14).

What are: CAHNR, SoB, SoE, School of Dental Medicine, Fine Arts, Graduate School, School of Law, CLAS, School of Medicine, Neag School of Education, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, Ratcliffe Hicks/Agriculture, School of Social Work 

400

This CSE course, formerly a core requirement for computer science majors at UConn, is no longer required as of the 2022-23 catalog year.

What is CSE 1729, Introduction to Principles of Programming? 
400

This professor became the first female department head in the UConn School of Engineering’s 102-year history in 2019.

Who is Dr. Maria Chrysochoou of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department?

400

This is the number of carbons in toluene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon present in petroleum and coal tar and used as a solvent in organic synthesis.

What is 7?

400

Katy Miller, former UConn SWE treasurer, currently works as a software engineer at this company.

What is Seacorp?

500

This French professor, who is also head of the Literatures, Languages, and Cultures department at UConn, is the co-director of the International Engineering Program. (1/5 points: name the other co-director of the IEP who is also the current Director of Engineering House)

Who is Dr. Jennifer Terni? (1/5: Dr. Nick Delaney)
500

This astronaut is a UConn School of Engineering alumnus and Waterbury native.

Who is Rick Mastracchio?

500

This American mechanical engineer invented the car heater, patented in 1893, originally having to be in her husband's name.

Who is Margaret A. Wilcox?

500

Flexion of the biceps brachii is an example of this kind of lever.

What is a Class 3 lever (force is applied closer to the fulcrum than the load)?

500

Pratt and Whitney’s single crystal turbine blade was designated an ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 2018 at this Connecticut location. 

What is the New England Air and Space Museum in Windsor Locks?

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