Famous Landmarks
Found in the City of Love, this wrought-iron French landmark stands 984 feet tall.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This platform can be found in many types: arch, truss, suspension, and cable. What is this important piece of roadway network called?
What is a bridge?
Located in the same city as the National Corvette Museum, this university also hosted the 2023 ASCE IN-KY Symposium.
What is Western Kentucky University?
Often used in dynamics and basic physics, this is the name for this type of equation.
S=S0+vt+12a2t
What is an “Equation of motion”?
Often the first piece of equipment set up a by a surveyor, this object commonly supports the surveyors equipment.
What is a tripod?
In education, STEM stands for “science, technology, engineering, mathematics.” When the letter A is added to become STEAM, what does the added letter stand for?
What is Arts?
Built during the rule of emperor Vespasian, this ancient amphitheater hosted animal hunts, prisoner executions, and gladiator combat.
What is the Colosseum?
Tall and having multiple floors, these city infrastructures are defined as buildings at least 490 feet or taller. The Burj Khalifa is the tallest of its kind.
What is a skyscraper?
Returning to school in 1952, Neil Armstrong graduated in 1955 with a bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from which university?
What is Purdue University (or Purdue University West Lafayette)?
A physics term that describes the second derivative of position, often used in reference to automobiles.
What is acceleration?
Used by surveyors this precision instrument measures and displays angles both horizontally and vertically.
What is a Theodolite?
This kind of catapult uses gravitational potential energy to fling heavy objects long distances.
What is a trebuchet?
An ivory-white marble mausoleum, you can visit South Asia to view this Indo-Islamic architectural masterpiece.
What is the Taj Mahal?
A safer alternative to stop controlled intersections, this design forces drivers to slow down, improves traffic flow, and is better for the environment.
What is a roundabout?
A private institution in Terre Haute, this university takes pride in its undergraduate focus on STEM.
What is Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology?
Often used in thermodynamics, the English equivalent of this unit is often called the foot pound.
(kg)/(ms^2)
What is a Joule?
Some of the words sound like a measurement of time, these are the three levels of precision of the angle 359 59’ 59”.
What are “Degrees, Minutes, Seconds”?
A fundamental concept that makes a statement about how a fluid's speed relates to its pressure, also helps explain why an aircraft can achieve lift.
What is Bernoulli’s Principle?
Located in southern England, archaeologists can only theorize the mysterious purpose of this rocky, prehistoric monument.
What is Stonehenge?
Originally called the Shinkansen in Japan, this high speed public transportation has a land speed of 200 miles per hour.
What is a bullet train?
Originally for men but started accepting undergraduate women in the ‘70s, this private university was founded by a priest.
What is the University of Notre Dame?
The unit of electrical resistance, measured with direct current, this unit is symbolized with an uppercase Greek letter omega.
What is the ohm?
A measurement tool in surveying, this not so normal tape uses subtraction instead of addition for its readings.
What is a Cut Tape?
This one of Newton’s Laws states that the acceleration of an object is directly related to the net force and inversely related to its mass? (F=m*a)
What is Newton’s 2nd Law?
A holy site of Christian and Catholic tradition, this Italian Renaissance and Baroque church sits in the microstate of Vatican City.
What is St. Peter’s Basilica?
These man-made passages have a variety of purposes: linking highways and transit systems, water supply, mining, flood control, and sewage distribution.
What is a tunnel?
Having two regional campuses in the Midwest, one of these campus university locations is only 30 miles away from the Windy City.
What is Purdue University Northwest?
In the field of physics, the study of matter and energy at the most fundamental level; this fundamental theory observes nature at an atomic scale.
What is quantum physics?
Often used in the same sentence as the word Surveying, this is the full written form of the acronym GIS.
What is “Geographic Information System”?
In this engineering field, professionals possess a broad understanding of the relationship between microstructure and properties of substances such as glass, metals, and polymers.
What is Materials Engineering?