PChem
This is the name for a reaction that releases heat to its surroundings.
Exothermic reaction
Raising Cane’s fans are known by this nickname.
Cainiacs
This small device is implanted in patients' hearts to regulate abnormal heart rhythms.
Pacemaker
What type of engineering is least represented at Iowa? (must still be an offered major, i.e. not Aerospace)
Environmental Engineering
This tissue connects bone to bone
A ligament
What is Avogadro’s number?
6.022 x 10^23
Raising Cane’s first restaurant, nicknamed the “Mothership,” opened near this university’s campus in Baton Rouge.
Louisiana State University
This common device is used to listen to heartbeats and breathing sounds.
Stethoscope
What room number is the fishbowl?
2040
This organ, often referred to as the body's 'filter,' helps remove waste from the blood.
The Kidneys
The second law of thermodynamics says this measure of disorder always increases in an isolated system.
Entropy
aising Cane’s opened in this year, the same decade as the Telecommunications Act and the first Dolly the sheep clone.
1996
These small, flexible tubes are inserted into veins or arteries to deliver medications or fluids directly into the bloodstream.
Catheter
When was the major South Annex expansion of the Seamans Center completed?
What is the largest organ in the human body?
The Skin
Defined as ΔH minus TΔS, this quantity is negative for a spontaneous reaction at constant temperature and pressure.
Gibbs Free Energy
This 2005 hurricane damaged 21 of Raising Cane’s 28 restaurants.
Hurricane Katrina
This device uses electromagnetic waves to produce images of internal body structures and is commonly used in hospitals.
MRI Machine
What is the official name of the biomedical department?
(Roy J.) Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
The average adult has this many bones in the body.
206
Bicarbonate in your blood is an example of this type of solution, which resists changes in pH when small amounts of acid or base are added.
Raising Cane’s plans to open its first restaurants in these two countries, one of them in Europe and one in North America.
United Kingdom and Mexico
Used for monitoring glucose levels, this device is essential for patients with diabetes.
Glucometer
Iowa became the _____ (number) public university in the country with an accredited biomedical engineering program.
Second
This part of the brain is responsible for higher functions such as reasoning, problem-solving, and planning.
Frontal Lobe