Civil
In civil engineering, Abrams’ law describes the strength of which type of building material that is composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together
What is Concrete
What physical measurement is technically defined as force divided by the area over which that force is being applied? Queen and David Bowie performed a song about being under it.
What is Pressure
In which field of engineering would you work with things like glass, ceramics, metals, polymers, and nanocrystals, and even discover (or make) new substances
What is Material Engineering
Social ______ is the name of the cybersecurity threat where nefarious actors trick others into revealing sensitive information. An example of this is when a scammer poses as tech support to gain access to someone's computer
What is Engineering
What structure notorious for its 3.97 degree tilt is the freestanding bell tower of a cathedral in its namesake Italian town? The structure's tilt comes from the soft ground of its unstable foundation
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa
What California structure designed in 1917 has an official color of "international orange
What is the Golden State Bridge
Taken straight from Wikipedia, "naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions in the atmosphere or ground temporarily equalize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of as much as one billion joules of energy" is the definition of what natural phenomenon
What is lightning
When viewing the composition of petroleum by weight, what chemical makes up the majority
What is Carbon
Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found what speedy meeting company in 2011? The company released its first version of their eponymous software two years later and had a "breakout year" in 2020.
What is Zoom
Better known as the maker of Galaxy smartphones, what Korean conglomerate was also the main contractor that built Dubai's Burj Khalifa
What is Samsung
What is the moment of an 8 Newton force acting on a lever at a perpendicular distance of 5 meters? Correct units required.
40 N*m
A major potential in efforts to engineer environmental sustainability are attempts to breed bacteria that can eat what polymer-based materials that are difficult to recycle
What is plastic
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Alcoa and Arconia are the two largest US-based producers of what elemental metal
What is Aluminum
Andy Rubin is known as one of the three founders of what massively popular cell phone operating system
What is Oracle
"Liber Abaci," or "Book of the Abacus" introduced Euro audiences to the golden ratio-like sequence of what Italian math dude
Who is Fibonacci
What canal connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Suez Canal
What “D” word refers to the weight per unit volume of any given substance? In “Back To The Future”, a confused George McFly tells Lorraine that she is his ______
What is Density
The resistance of stainless steel to rusting is due to the presence of which element with atomic number 24
What is Chromium
The University of Cambridge offered the first degree in computer science but what Midwestern university had the country’s first computer science department? The school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana.
What is Purdue University
The last letter of the Greek alphabet represents what unit of electrical resistance
What is Ohm
What New Orleans structure failed in August 2005, leading to claims of "the worst engineering disaster in the world since Chernobyl
What are Levees
In a 2012 speech, Barack Obama compared Boulder City's Copper Mountain Solar Facility to what ginormous hydroelectric piece of infrastructure straddling the Arizona-Nevada border?
What is the Hoover Dam
As defined by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which subfield of engineering involves studying and making use of Earth’s natural ground materials like rocks and soil
What is Geotechnical
What technology company was founded in 1982, had a portmanteau name, was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, and briefly featured Apple CEO Tim Cook as a Vice President
What is Compaq
Which type of bridge is characterized by two projecting beams or trusses that are joined in the center by a connecting member and are supported on piers and anchored by counterbalancing members? The Quebec Bridge is an example of this type of bridge
What is a Cantilever