Types of Engineering
This type of engineering can build rockets or satellites that orbit the Earth.
What is an aerospace engineer?
Ice cream melts faster on a hot day because of what form of energy from the sun?
What is heat?
This simple machine is made of a wheel with a rope and lifts heavy objects.
What is a pulley?
In programming, this is a set of instructions that tells a computer what to do.
What is code? (or a program)
This common tool tightens or loosens screws and comes in flathead and Phillips styles.
What is a screwdriver?
This type of engineer can use gears, motors, or pulleys to create cars, robots, or engines that move and do work.
What is a mechanical engineer? (Which is also the major of our club!)
Wind turbines and solar panels are used to create this kind of energy that doesn't run out.
What is renewable energy?
When two or more gears are connected, turning one gear causes the others to do this.
What is rotate/ turn?
In coding, a loop is used to do this.
Engineers use this rolled up tool to get accurate dimensions of an object.
What is a tape measure?
This type of engineer designs cleaner systems to help reduce pollution in air, water, and soil.
What is an environmental engineer?
Farmers can use this type of technology to check on all of their crops from the sky and gather data quickly. (HINT: This can also be a fun toy to fly around)
What are drones?
These toothed wheels work together to change speed or direction in machines such as clocks or bikes.
What are gears?
This type of storage remembers things even when the power is turned off on a computer.
What is a hard drive?
This precise tool checks if a surface or edge is perfectly horizontal or vertical.
What is a level?
This type of engineer plans and builds things like roads, bridges, and buildings that people use everyday.
What is a civil engineer?
What is Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or time sync?
This engine part opens and closes to let fuel and air into a car engine. (HINT: your sink also uses this to let water flow)
What is a valve?
This type of computer memory is fast but only works while the computer is turned on. (HINT: sounding it out spells an animal's name)
What is RAM?
This tool is used in electronics to join metal parts by melting a metal material between them.
What is a soldering iron?
This type of engineer works at the intersection of biology and mechanics to design things like artifical joints, prosthetics limbs, and medical devices.
What is a biomechanical engineer? (or biomedical engineer)
Automatic doors in a store open due to this type of sensor.
What is a motion sensor?
This system of belts or chains is used in bikes and some machines to transfer motion from one place to another.
What is a drive system? (Anything similar to a conveyor belt system counts)
This is the brain of the computer that processes information.
What is the CPU?
Engineers and mechanics use this precise tool to measure thickness or diameter to fractions of a millimeter.
What are calipers?