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South West Michigan
100

The ADS product trademark is marked by this color stripe.

What is Green?

100

The weight of structural elements, including columns and beams, contributes to this type of load.

What is Dead Load?

100

The nickname of Michigan's Longest Span, connecting it's Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

What is Big Mac / Mighty Mac?

100

The 2020 President of ASCE.

Who is K. N. Gunalan?

100

Working at his wood shop in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Orville Gibson would be known for producing this instrument.

What are Guitars?

200

This pipe diameter is the largest made by ADS.

What is 60-inch?

200

The the most common cementitious ingredient in concrete, is this type of cement.

What is Portland?

200

This dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume.

What is Hoover Dam?

200

The ASCE is composed of this many regions, one in global.

What is 10?

200

The original platted name of Kalamazoo

What is The Village of Bronson?

300

This ADS product is sometimes referred to as “The Big Yellow Doghouses.”

What are StormTech Chambers?

300

Within the Unified Soil Classification System, the Letter G stands for this.

What is Gravel?

300

A gift from France, this robed goddess overlooks New York Harbor.

What is Statue of Liberty?

300

This year was the last time the ASCE updated their Code of Ethics.

What is 2020?
300

The home of delicious round deep-fried confections and coffee, the best in the America.  

What is Sweetwater's Donut Mill?

400

Four years ago, ADS celebrated this milestone anniversary?

What is 50th?

400

An environmental engineer would recognize this term, by the acronym BOD.

What is Biological Oxygen Demand?

400

It took just over 10 years to construct this maritime connection between the Red and Mediterranean Seas.

What is the Suez Canal?

400

"Enhance the quality of life for humanity" falls under this Canon of the ASCE Code of Ethics.

What is Canon 1: Society?

400

Lead the Western Michigan Bronco's Football Team to their first Bowl Game Victory.

Who is P. J. Fleck

500

This plastic additive’s primary responsibility is UV protection.

What is Carbon Black?

500

In general, converting an area from grassland to 1/4-acre-lot single family housing will have this effect on the time of concentration.

What is decrease?

500

Thanks to engineering ingenuity, this river now flows out of Lake Michigan rather than into it.

What is the Chicago River?

500

An integral part of building codes in the United States, this manual's current edition describes the means for determining structural design loads.

What is ASCE 7-16?


500

William Shakespeare, Jr. was the American inventor responsible for this well known outdoors equipment company.

Shakespeare Fishing Tackle