Lab 101
Texas Tech
ECE acronyms
General Knowledge
ECE Faculty
100

This tool is used to remove small amounts of solder

What is a solder sucker

100

This famous mascot in costume wears a big cowboy hat and carries two pistols

Who is Raider Red?

100

LED

What is Light Emitting Diode?

100

The powerhouse of the cell

What is the mitochondria?

100

Advisor for Computer Engineering

Who is Andrew Vanderpool?

200

This tool is used to measure a variety of component attributes.

What is a multimeter

200

This Texas Tech QB won the NFL MVP award in 2018

Who is Patrick Mahomes

200

CPU

What is Central Processing Unit?

200

The desert planet where Luke Skywalker grew up.

What is Tatooine?

200

This lab professor works full time at X-fab

Who is Haustein?

300

Lab reports should always be written in this format.

What is IEEE format?

300

This bronze horse is part of the Will Rogers statue on campus

Who is Soapsuds?

300

USB

What is Universal Serial Bus?

300

This device helped Doc and Marty go back in time

What is the flux capacitor?

300

This faculty member got their PHD in Spring 2025

Who is Dr. Johnston?

400

This tool used to measure signals over time.

What is an Oscilloscope?

400

This is the larges college at Texas Tech by enrollment

What is Arts and Sciences?

400

RTOS

What is Real-Time Operation System?

400

The lowest point on the planet

What is The Mariana Trench

400

Who is the advisor for IEEE WIE?

Who is Dr. Molly Dickens?

500

A simple and widely used asynchronous serial communication protocol that exchanges data between devices

What is UART?

500

The tradition of throwing tortillas at football games started during this decade

What is the 1990s?

500

MOSFET

What is Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor?

500

Capital of Australia

What is Canberra?

500

Faculty member that was part of the TTU ultimate frisbee team

Who is Andrew Vanderpool?

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