Fundamental Formulas
F=ma
What is Newton's Second Law?
This manufacturing method builds parts layer by layer directly from a digital model.
What is additive manufacturing?
When you pull a piece of taffy from both ends, it is experiencing this type of loading.
What is tension?
Before becoming a television personality, this “Science Guy” worked as a mechanical engineer at Boeing.
Who is Bill Nye?
These brothers designed the first successful airplane?
Who are the Wright brothers?
ΔU=Q-W
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This Autodesk CAD software is widely used by ASME design teams for parametric modeling, simulation, and manufacturing workflows.
What is Fusion?
If a chocolate bar bends and the bottom surface compresses while the top surface experiences tension, this type of stress is occurring.
What is bending stress?
This Marvel superhero is a billionaire engineer who builds his own powered exoskeleton suit.
Who is Tony Stark?
This inventor held over 1,000 U.S. patents and created the first commercially successful incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
E=(stress)/(strain)
Young's Modulus
This dimensioning system specifies allowable variation in part size to ensure proper fit and function.
What are tolerances?
To determine the tension in a rope suspending a piñata full of candy, an engineer would begin with this sketch.
What is a free body diagram?
In The Martian, this mechanical engineer finds himself stranded on Mars and must rely on problem solving and engineering principles to survive.
Who is Mark Watney?
This Serbian-American inventor developed the AC power system and holds over 300 patents.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
σ=Eϵ
What is Hooke's Law?
Located in Leonhard 106, this laboratory gives students hands-on experience with casting, injection molding, welding, robotics, and computer-integrated manufacturing systems.
What is the FAME lab?
Repeatedly bending taffy back and forth until it breaks is an example of this failure mechanism that occurs below the material’s ultimate strength.
What is fatigue?
This MIT-trained aerospace engineer on The Big Bang Theory frequently reminds his friends that engineers “build the things physicists dream about.”
Who is Howard Wolowitz?
This Scottish engineer improved the steam engine, dramatically increasing its efficiency during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is James Watt?
ρ(∂t/∂v+v⋅∇v)=−∇p+μ∇2v+f
What is the simplified incompressible Navier–Stokes equation?
Developed by WL Gore, this breakthrough material is formed through solid-state expansion, resulting in a unique node-and-fibril microstructure.
What is expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE)?
If a gummy bear slowly deforms under a constant load over time, it is exhibiting this time-dependent material behavior.
What is creep?
This Actor's mother, Judith Love Cohen, was an aerospace engineer who worked on the guidance system for the Apollo 13 mission.
Who is Jack Black?
This aerospace engineer and mathematician calculated orbital mechanics for the Mercury and Apollo missions and was later portrayed in Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?