Catalyzed in Dayton
CME in the Wild
Constants and Calculations
Faculty Facts
The Code Behind the Course
100

This crunchy snack, born in Dayton in 1921, is a square cracker with a hole in the middle and a cheesy flavor.

What are Cheez-Its?  

100

In this award-winning series, a chemistry teacher trades titrations for the drug trade and shows the world what pure crystal looks like.

What is Breaking Bad?

100

At standard conditions, this liquid has a density of about 1 gram per cubic centimeter, making it the go-to reference in labs.

What is water?

100

Who is the freshman CME advisor?

Who is Dr. Abouzahra?

100

What is the class number for Engineering Innovation?

What is EGR 103?

200

Invented in Dayton in 1879 by James Ritty to stop employees from stealing, this machine became essential to businesses worldwide.

What is the cash register?

200

This Nobel Prize-winning chemist developed a method to make ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, revolutionizing fertilizers and warfare alike.

Who is Fritz Haber? / What is the Haber–Bosch process?

200

This is the equation for the ideal gas law.

What is PV = nRT?

200

Which professor’s daughter is an opera singer and son is a professional poker player?

Who is Dr. Saliba?

200

What is the class number for Chemical Engineering Computations?

What is CME 281?

300

Ermal Fraze of Dayton made life easier in 1962 by inventing this soda can innovation you can crack open with one finger.

What is the pop tab?

300

Marie Curie discovered and named these two chemical elements while pioneering radioactivity research.

What are polonium and radium?

300

This is Avogadro’s number, the number of particles in a mole.

What is 6.022 × 10²³?


300

How many kids does Dr. Hinkle have?

What is four? 

300

What is the class number for Material & Energy Balances?

What is CME 203?

400

Dayton’s John H. Balsley made climbing safer when he invented this tool in 1862, now essential for painters and handymen.

What is the stepladder?

400

This action star, who played Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, holds a chemical engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Who is Dolph Lundgren?

400

What are the units for gc?

What is 32.174 lbm·ft/lbf·s²?

400

Who is the chair of the CME department

Who is Dr. Krupa?

400

What is the class number for Organic Chemistry?

What is CHM 313?

500

Though they tested their invention at Kitty Hawk, this famous duo from Dayton designed and built the first powered airplane.

Who are the Wright brothers?

500

Often called the “bible” of chemical engineering, Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook is currently in this edition.

What is the 9th edition?

500

This is Planck’s constant, in units of joule-seconds.

What is 6.626 × 10⁻³⁴ J·s?

500

Which two CME professors graduated from Dayton in the same class?

Who are Dr. Elsass and Dr. Wilkens?

500

What is the class number for Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer Processes

What is CME 465?