Vocabulary
Types of Engineers
CEAS Organizations
Famous Engineers
Inventions that Changed the World
100

The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures.

What is Computer Science?

100

Someone who studies the design, development, and production of air and spacecraft is called...

What is an Aerospace Engineer?

100

IEEE

What is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers?

100

Two American engineers, inventors and aviators, who made excellent contribution to the airplane industry.

Who are the Wright Brothers? 

100

This basic technology not only made it easier to travel, but also served as the base for a huge number of other innovative technologies.

What is the wheel?

200

A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

What is data?

200

Someone who develops and improves the software programs and hardware that make computers run is called...

What is a Computer Engineer?

200

ASME

What is the American Society of Mechanical Engineers?

200

Pioneered the use of mass production for motor cars, helping to reduce the price and make cars affordable for the average American consumer.

Who is Henry Ford?

200

It's a composite material made from a mixture of broken stone or gravel, sand, Portland cement, and water, which can be spread or poured into molds and forms a mass resembling stone on hardening.

What is concrete?

300

An electrical device providing a path for current to flow.

What is a circuit?

300

Someone who specializes in designing and developing technology and methods for digging the earth’s surface to extract oil and gas is called...

What is a Petroleum Engineer?

300

AIAA

What is the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics?

300

English inventor of the first mechanical computers.

Who is Charles Babbage?

300

Before the Internet's ability to spread information, this invention helped information travel around the globe.

What is the printing press?

400

The quality of being exact. 

What is precision?

400

Someone who applies earth sciences to human problems is called...

What is a Geological Engineer?

400

SPE

What is the Society of Plastic Engineers?

400

American inventor, and electronics engineer who co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs in the late 1970s.

Who is Steve Wozniak?

400

They provide one of the best clues in determining the age of historic buildings and was possible only after the development of techniques to caste and shape metal.

What is the nail?

500

The representation of the real world by a computer program.

What is a simulation.

500

Someone who is responsible for the design and construction of seagoing vessels and structures, focusing primarily on their internal systems is called...

What is a Marine Engineer?

500
SAE

What is the Society of Automotive Engineers?

500

French civil engineer who designed and built the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1889 and helped design the Statue of Liberty.

Who is Gustave Eiffel?

500

This invention consisted of a clay jar that was filled with a vinegar solution into which an iron rod surrounded by a copper cylinder was inserted to produce volts.

What is a battery?