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This component of roadway design helps prevent vehicles from sliding or skidding through curves.
What is superelevation?
100
This oldest and largest business association of engineering companies was founded in 1905.
What is ACEC?
100
This wastewater treatment plant located in Boston is the second largest in the U.S.
What is the Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant?
100
This bridge was featured in the James Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" in 1969.
What is 25th of April Bridge in Lisbon, Portugal?
200
This is a tendency of a force to rotate a body.
What is a moment?
200
This state has the highest employment of civil engineers in the country.
What is California?
200
This building, the tallest in the world, reaches a height of 2,717 feet.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
200
The yellow seen here indicates the speed sign is of this type.
What is advisory?
300
This is the product formed when raw sewage is mixed with bacteria-laden sludge, then stirred and aerated to destroy organic matter.
What is activated sludge?
300
This university is the largest engineering school in the U.S. based on enrollment.
What is the Georgia Institute of Technology?
300
The Manchac Swamp Bridge located in this state pictured here is the longest bridge in the U.S., at roughly 120,000 feet.
What is Louisiana?
300
The MUTCD, or acronym for this, defines the standards nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices...
What is the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways?
400
TSS, or acronym for this, refers to a water quality parameter used to assess the quality of a specimen water.
What is total suspended solids?
400
As of 12/2022, there were this many registered PEs and PLSs in Massachusetts:
- 7,540
- 10,245
- 16,641
- 24,127
What is 16,641?
400
This state has the most number of roadway lane miles in the country.
What is Texas at 686,500 lane miles.
400
This Greek letter represents the summation operator in mathematics.
What is Sigma?
