Engineers love their Tech Acronyms
A workflow process software that uses 3D models to plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. (Please spell out the acronym)
What is Building Information Modeling?
This famous tower foundation failed because it was built on soft, unstable soil that couldn't support the tower's weight. The tower began leaning soon after the the 3rd story was built.
What is The Leaning Tower of Pisa?
The first engineer known by name, who built the Step Pyramid in Egypt around 2550 BCE.
Who is Imhotep?
This engineer can help ensure structures are able to withstand the stresses and pressures imposed by use and the environment.
What is a structural engineer?
Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, this skyscraper is the tallest building in the world.
What is The Burj Khalifa?
Computer-based software to aid in design processes by creating simulations of real-world objects or buildings with 2D design or 3D models. (Please spell out the acronym)
What is Computer Aided Design?
On March 12, 1928, only two years after this famous dam was built in California, it catastrophically failed. The consensus of most of the investigating commissions was that increasing water percolation through the fault line had either undermined or weakened the foundation to a point that a portion of the structure blew out or the dam collapsed from its own immense weight.
What is the St. Francis Dam?
A famous electrical engineer considered a pioneer in the field; he is widely recognized for his significant contributions to alternating current (AC) power systems, which became the foundation for modern electricity distribution.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
This engineer can help plan, design, and maintain infrastructure projects, including roads, bridges, and water systems.
What is a civil engineer?
At 343 meters, this bridge in France which crosses the Tarn Valley, currently holds the title of the world's tallest bridge.
What is The Millau Viaduct?
Comprehensive geospatial software that helps users create, manage, and analyze data in a geographic context.
What is ArcGIS (geographic information system)?
Only four months after it opened, this famous bridge in Washington, suffered a fatal collapse on November 7, 1940. While the bridge was designed to withstand winds of up to 120 mph, it collapsed in 42 mph winds due to resonance.
What is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
He was the first self-proclaimed "civil engineer", and is often regarded as the "father of civil engineering". He pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, and designed the Eddystone lighthouse in 1759.
Who is John Smeaton?
This engineer can help design computer and information networks, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, and more.
What is a Telecommunications Engineer?
This dam, which spans the Yangtze River in Hubei province, China, is the world’s largest hydroelectric plant. It has a generating capacity of 22,500 megawatts and the reservoir it creates has a storage capacity of 39.3 billion cubic metres.
What is The Three Gorges Dam?
Software analyst program used to design and analyze structures like buildings, bridges, and towers.
What is STADD (Structural Analysis and Design software)?
On the night of July 17, 1981, two suspended walkways of this hotel in Missouri collapsed. There were several attendants on the suspended walkways when connections supporting the ceiling rods that hoisted both the second and fourth floor walkways across the atrium failed and collapsed below. Investigators found that the collapse was the result of changes to the design of the walkway's steel hanger rods.
What is the Hyatt Regency Hotel?
He is often coined the father of mechanical engineering because his steam engine invention gave way to the industrial revolution and was central in the development of the profession of mechanical engineering.
Who is James Watt?
This engineer can use rock and soil mechanics to investigate the subsurface conditions.
What is a Geotechnical engineer?
Norway is home to the longest road tunnel in the world, which stretches between Aurland and Lærdal. It opened to the public in 2001and is 15.2 miles long.
What is The Lærdal Tunnel?
Graphical user interface that allows users to visualize and edit data for the US Army Corps of Engineers' ______ software. It's also a robust tool for hydraulic analyse for flood control and river engineering studies.
What is GeoHECRAS (Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis System)?
This famous bridge in Canada collapsed twice but is still the world’s largest ever cantilever bridge. The bridge collapsed the first time in 1907 during it's construction and again in 1916.
What is The Quebec Bridge?
Considered one of the 'fathers of fire service hydraulics' around the turn of the 20th century due to his research on fire streams, who is often cited as a prominent figure in fire protection engineering?
Who is John R. Freeman?
This engineer can help design and maintain safety systems to protect people, property, and the environment.
What is a fire protection engineer?
In June 2011, this bridge in China became the world’s longest. This bridge runs parallel to the Yangtze river, at an average height of about 328 feet and is 102 miles long
What is Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge or Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway bridge?