Core Concepts
The opposition to motion when two surfaces slide against each other is called this
What is friction?
This Paris landmark, designed by Gustave Eiffel, was the tallest structure in the world when completed in 1889
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This astronaut and aerospace engineer was the first person to set foot on the Moon in 1969
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Media Engineering: This type of online content is designed to maximize clicks and engagement, often sensational or misleading
What is clickbait?
This law relates voltage, current, and resistance in a linear circuit
What is Ohm's Law?
This U.S. dam on the Colorado River, completed in 1936, provides hydroelectric power, water storage, and flood control
What is the Hoover Dam?
This American engineer revolutionized manufacturing by introducing the moving assembly line to automobile production
Who is Henry Ford
Political Engineering: Drawing district boundaries to give one party an advantage is called this
What is gerrymandering?
This equation, often written as PV = nRT, relates the pressure, volume, and temperature of a gas
What is the Ideal Gas Law
This type of machine uses electromagnetic fields to accelerate charged particles to high speeds and smash them together for experiments in physics
What is a particle accelerator?
Before teaching science on television, this engineer worked for Boeing and invented a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor for the 747
Who is Bill Nye?
Culture Engineering: This type of campaign or communication, often run by governments, is designed to shape public opinion or influence behavior
What is propaganda?
This type of structural failure occurs when compression causes a slender column to bend sideways
What is buckling?
The Saturn V rocket, which carried astronauts to the moon, was developed under this German-American aerospace engineer's leadership
Who is Wernher von Braun?
This Scottish engineer’s improvements to the steam engine sparked the Industrial Revolution and earned him a unit of power named in his honor
Who is James Watt?
Social Engineering: This term describes tricking someone into revealing their passwords or private info
What is phishing?
In thermodynamics, this property measures a system’s disorder or randomness
What is entropy?
This process, developed in the early 20th century, revolutionized the mass production of plastics like polyethylene and polypropylene
What is the Ziegler-Natta process?
Better known as a Hollywood actress, this self-taught inventor co-developed frequency-hopping technology that later made Wi-Fi and Bluetooth possible
Who is Hedy Lamarr
Market Engineering: This pricing strategy automatically adjusts the price of a product or service in real time based on factors like demand, competitor pricing, or customer behavior
This massive bridge in Washington collapsed in 1940 during a windstorm, famously due to aeroelastic flutter
What is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?