Science
This gas is the most abundant in the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
NSBE was founded in 1975 at this University.
What is Purdue University?
These two-sided cards have a question or term on the front and the answer on the back.
What are flashcards?
The only even prime number.
What is 2?
This simple machine is a rigid bar that pivots on a fulcrum.
What is a lever?
This element has the abbreviation Fr.
What is Francium?
NSBE’s mission is to increase the number of ................... engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community.
What are culturally responsible Black engineers?
This time-management method that alternates 25-minute focus blocks with short breaks.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
The integral of 1/x.
What is ln|x| + C?
This logic gate outputs true only when its inputs differ.
What is XOR?
The temperature where the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales read the same.
What is −40?
NSBE’s student founders, John Logan, Edward Coleman, George Smith, Stanley Kirtley, Brian Harris, and Anthony Harris, are known by this nickname.
What is “The Chicago Six”?
Instead of rereading your notes, this strategy has you close the book and try to remember the material from memory.
What is active recall?
The limit of sin(x)/x as x approaches 0.
What is 1?
This bridge type hangs its deck from cables strung between towers.
What is a suspension bridge?
The most electronegative element on the periodic table.
What is fluorine?
Before it became NSBE, the 1971 group was called this.
What is the Black Society of Engineers (BSE)?
This visual note-taking technique starts with a central idea in the middle of the page and branches out to related topics.
What is mind mapping?
The determinant of the matrix [[2, 3], [1, 4]].
What is 5?
A data structure principle which is commonly implemented in stack data structures
What is LIFO / What is Last-In-First-Out
The organelle in plant cells where photosynthesis takes place.
What is the chloroplast?
This symbol in NSBE’s logo represents the impact members’ contributions will have on society and industry.
What is the lightning bolt?
Named for a Nobel-winning physicist, this method has you explain a concept in simple terms as if teaching it, to find gaps in your understanding.
What is the Feynman Technique?
This unsolved Millennium Prize problem concerns the zeros of the zeta function.
What is the Riemann Hypothesis?
This dimensionless number compares inertial forces to viscous forces in a fluid.
What is the Reynolds number?