Engineering Orgs
Engineering Marvels
Famous Engineers
Engineering Terms
Tools and Techniques
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ASME
What is the American Society of Mechanical Engineers?
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This creation was made by two bicycle mechanics from Dayton Ohio that were the pioneers of aerospace engineering
What is the Wright Brothers Airplane?
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In 1969, this astronaut became the first person to walk on the Moon, famously declaring, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Arstrong?
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This 3 letter Acronym stands for the proccess of designing, testing, and improving a product before mass production.
What is CAD?
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This tool, often used in precision engineering, measures the distance between two opposite sides of an object, and can be digital, vernier, or dial-type.
What are Callipers?
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ASCE
What is The American Society of Civil Engineers?
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This engineering marvel is currently the tallest building in the world
What is the Burj Khalifa?
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This inventor, known for his work with alternating current, once battled Thomas Edison in what became known as the "War of the Currents."
Who is Nikola Tesla?
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Named after a German physicist, this unit measures electrical resistance, symbolized by the Greek letter omega.
What is an Ohm?
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This machining process involves rotating a workpiece on a spindle while a cutting tool is fed into the material, often used to create cylindrical parts.
What is turning (latheing)?
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SWE
What is the Society of Women Engineers?
600
Orbiting Earth at approximately 28,000 kilometers per hour, this research laboratory has been continuously inhabited since the year 2000.
What is the International Space Station?
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This Renaissance polymath conceptualized designs for a flying machine, a tank, and various mechanical devices centuries before they were built, showcasing his genius as an engineer.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
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This material property measures the maximum stress a material can withstand without breaking, often expressed in units of force per cross-sectional area.
What is Tensile Strength?
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This versatile electrical testing device is used to measure voltage, current, and resistance, and can be found in nearly every electrician’s toolkit.
What is a Multimeter?
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IEEE
What is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers?
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At 17 miles in circumference, this underground machine near Geneva is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
What is the Large Hadron Collider?
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In 1892, this German engineer patented a revolutionary internal combustion engine that bears his name today.
Who is Rudolph Diesel?
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This engineering term refers to the ratio of a material's ultimate strength to the maximum expected load, used to ensure reliability in design.
What is Factor of Safety?
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Used extensively in engineering simulations, this method helps to solve complex structural, thermal, and fluid dynamics problems by breaking down objects into a mesh of smaller, simpler components.
What is FEA?
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ACM
What is the Association for Computing Machinery?
1000
This massive statue, built in 280 BCE to celebrate a military victory, once stood at the entrance of a Greek island’s harbor and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is the Collosus of Rhodes?
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Though best known as a glamorous Hollywood actress, this Austrian-born star co-invented a frequency-hopping technology that laid the groundwork for modern Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Who is Heddy Lamarr?
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This principle states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
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This Japanese term refers to a technique used in manufacturing to prevent mistakes by designing processes that make errors impossible or immediately detectable.
What is Poka-Yoke?