Powerful Women
She is considered the world's first computer programer
Ada Lovelace
An electrical device composed of two electrical surfaces separated by an insulating material
Capacitor
The number of bits in 1 byte
8
The name of our Member Outreach Chair
Isabelle
Full name of the ECE department head
Donald Richard Brown
She coined the term "software engineer" and was essential in the success of the Apollo missions to the moon
Margaret Hamilton
What LED and LCD stand for
Light-Emitting Diode and Liquid Crystal Display
The output of an XNOR gate
0 0 = 1
0 1 = 0
1 0 = 0
1 1 = 1
Star
The year AK was built (or other AK facts)
1907
(shape of an E, first building in the country dedicated to ECE edu, the 1907 Commencement was hosted in AK,
She invented the compiler
Grace Hopper
What is also known as 1 newton meter
1 Joule
This type of memory retains its contents even when power is turned off
Non-volatile memory
She organized WECE in 1994 (the WECE lounge was opened in March of 2003 in her honor)
Professor Denise Nicoletti
The school's name when it was chartered on May 10, 1865
Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science
She was the first professionally employed female electrical engineer, the first female EE professor, and the first woman to graduate with an MS in EE (from MIT). She also invented the graphing calculator (specifically for EE problems)
Edith Clarke
This transform is an integral transformation of a function, f(t), from the time domain into the complex frequency domain, F(s)
Laplace Transform
These signals either change the amplitude or the frequency of a signal (hint: radio)
Amplitude Modulation (AM) and Frequency Modulation (FM)
Where Lily went for IQP (Bonus points if you know where specifically she lived)
London (Camden, Russell Square)
When did Atwater Kent graduate from WPI
Trick question! He enrolled in 1895, but dropped out after one semester. He came back the following year, but found his science and math courses daunting. Before the year was done, he was asked to withdraw and told his future looked dim.
(but then he worked on radios and donated tons of money to the school lol)
She invented a frequency hopping spread spectrum system that was a basis for modern Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS (She was also an actress honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
Hedy Lamarr
The function of a Galvanometer
Detect electric current
What VHDL stands for
VHSIC (very high-speed integrated circuit) Hardware Description Language
The essential/core/foundational ECE class Shannon has avoided taking until senior year
Microelectronics (1)
When was the EE department founded? (Bonus points for when it changed to ECE)
1896 (1992)