Engineering in Movies
Played by Matt Damon, this astronaut botanist/engineer is stranded on Mars in this 2015 film.
Who is Mark Watney in "The Martian"?
While an undergraduate student at Auburn University Tim Cook studied what discipline of engineering.
What is Industrial Engineering
This landmark was a gift from the French.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
What's the term for this simple machine? It features a wheel with a grooved rim, perfect for ropes or chains to run on.
What is a pulley?
In civil engineering, Abrams’ law describes the strength of this type of building material that is composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together.
What is Concrete?
In this movie a backyard engineer creates a solution to the boring food available in his town by creating the The FLDSMDFR.
What is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?
This engineer is known for designing the Model T automobile.
Who is Henry Ford?
This Italian structure is a symbol of the city and is famous for its unintended tilt.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
This term describes the force that opposes motion between two sliding surfaces.
What is friction?
The formula that relates voltage (V), current (I), and resistance (R) in an electrical circuit.
What is Ohm's Law?
This is the name of the lab Oppenheimer developed during the Manhattan Project that still exists today.
What is Los Alamos Nation Labs?
This female engineer and physicist is known for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This tower constructed in 1974 was the tallest building in the world for 25 years.
What is the Sears tower?
This term describes a force that causes rotation around an axis or point.
What is torque?
This engineering principle states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or transferred.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The three women in the movie "Hidden Figures" contributed to the success of this mission.
What is Orbital Flight?
This civil engineer was the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who is Roebling?
This performing arts center, designed by Jørn Utzon, features a distinctive sail-like design.
What is the Sydney Opera House?
What does MARR stand for?
What is Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return?
Structural engineering Theory analyzes the following three things.
What are forces, materials, and stability?
This movie is about ISE professors Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
What is Cheaper by the dozen?
This Serbian-American engineer and inventor is best known for his work with polyphase AC systems.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
These twin towers, located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004.
What are the Petronas Twin Towers?
This term refers to the study and application of fluid behavior, particularly in engineering applications.
What is fluid mechanics?
This type of electrical circuit has multiple paths for current to flow.
What is a parallel circuit?