Engineering Disciplines
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Who engineered that?
100

This Engineering Discipline deals with public infrastructure such as roads, bridges, or dams.

Civil Engineering
100

What ingredients are used to make concrete?

Cement, Sand, Gravel, and Water

100

what does Mm stand for

megameter

100

Who invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

100

The Eiffel Tower

Gustave Eiffel

200

Name 2 sub disciplines of Mechanical Engineering

Aerospace, Biomechanics & Medical Devices, Energy and Environment, Mechatronics, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, etc.

200

What type of bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge

A Suspension Bridge


200

what is the conversion rate from cm to inches

(how many cm per inch)

2.54 cm per inch

200

Who was credited with the invention of the airplane?

Orville and Wilbur Wright

200

The modern assembly line manufacturing process

Henry Ford

300

What do Chemical Engineers do? 

Operate and design chemical plants used to convert raw materials into useful products.

300

What is the cruising speed of a Boeing 737 MAX 8

839km/h 

300

what is the force of gravity on a cube that weight 2kg?

19.6N

300

Who invented the steam engine?

James Watt

300

The Saturn V

Wernher von Braun

400

Which engineering discipline has the highest base salary?

Petroleum Engineering
400

What is the process that is used to synthesize ammonia from the atmosphere?

The Haber-Bosch Process

400

Factor 12x4 - 20x3 + 11x2 -2x

x(2x-1)2(3x-2)

400

Who discovered that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the volume of the cylinder that encloses it?

Archimedes

400

The "Bombe", used to crack the German Enigma code?

Alan Turing

500

How many engineering disciplines does UBC offer?

10-14

500

What is the name of this math theorem

(look at screen)

Hint: McDonalds

The Chicken McNugget Theorem

500

If you were to swim in a perfect circle of radius 12 meters with a centripetal acceleration of 0.25m/s², how many revolutions would you complete in 10 minutes?

13.8 revolutions

500

Who is known informally as the father of the hydrogen bomb?

Edward Teller

500

The Mac (computer)

Steve Wozniak