Mechanical Engineering
This law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
The 3 states of matter
What are liquid, solid and gas?
The substance flowing through the wires of a circuit.
What is Current?
Asphalt is most commonly used to build this type of infrastructure.
What is a road (or pavement)?
This is the term for a mistake in a program that causes it to behave incorrectly.
What is a bug?
In what city is the NSBE 2025 National Conference in?
What is Baltimore, Maryland?
Flow with a Reynolds number less than 2000 is considered this.
What is laminar flow?
In chemical engineering, this technique separates a liquid mixture by differences in boiling points.
What is distillation?
A circuit component that temporarily stores electrical energy by distributing charged particles on (generally two) plates to create a potential difference.
What is a capacitor?
This branch of civil engineering focuses on the analysis and design of bridges, buildings, and towers.
What is structural engineering?
This company developed the first widely used personal computer in the 1980s.
What is IBM?
What year was NSBE incorporated?
1975
Heat transfer by direct molecular contact is known as this.
What is conduction?
This gas law states that at constant temperature; the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume.
What is Boyle's Law?
This law states that the total voltage around a closed loop is equal to the sum of voltage drops within the same loop.
What is Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL)?
This ancient Roman structure type is known for carrying water over long distances.
What is an aqueduct?
This part of the computer temporarily stores data that is actively being used or processed.
What is RAM?
Where was the first chapter of NSBE founded?
What is Purdue University?
This mechanical failure occurs due to repeated cyclic loading below yield strength.
What is fatigue?
The energy change associated with breaking and forming chemical bonds in a reaction.
What is enthalpy change (ΔH) ?
The direct proportional relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in a circuit
What is Ohm's Law?
A beam supported only at one end and free on the other is called this.
What is a cantilever beam?
This type of loop continues as long as a condition is true.
What is a while loop?
What’s the correct response to ‘What’s up Region 4’?
Fo’ Solid. How Long? Fo’ Life. Forever.
This quantity is the product of mass and velocity.
What is momentum?
This dimensionless number compares inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid flow and helps predict whether flow is laminar or turbulent.
What is Reynolds number?
Any material can conduct an electric current but these materials do not allow a current to flow very easily
What is an insulator?
This type of structural force pushes inward on a material, causing it to shorten.
What is compression?
This type of storage uses flash memory and has no moving parts, making it faster than traditional hard drives.
What is an SSD (Solid State Drive)?
How many years has NSBE been around?
What is 50 years?
This factor is built into designs to account for uncertainties and ensure safety.
What is the factor of safety?
This technique involves adding a solution of known concentration to a solution of unknown concentration until the reaction reaches an endpoint, often indicated by a color change.
What is titration?
The device that increases or decreases the voltage of alternating current (AC)
What is a transformer?
This common construction vehicle is used for digging and lifting materials.
What is an excavator?
The device that connects multiple networks and routes data between them.
What is a router?
Name three of the founding fathers of NSBE
Edward Coleman, Anthony Harris, Brian Harris, Stanley L. Kirtley, John
W. Logan Jr., and George Smith the “Chicago Six
Materials that deform significantly before fracture are called this.
What are ductile materials?
The process of a solid turning directly into a gas without passing through the liquid phase.
What is sublimation?
The rule used to determine the voltage drop across each resistor in a parallel circuit.
What is the voltage division rule?
This type of renewable energy is created by water falling through turbines in a dam.
What is hydroelectric power?
A program that translates code written in a high-level programming language, into a low-level language that a computer's processor can execute.
What is a compiler?
What was the former name of the NSBE Professionals:
NSBE Alumni Extension
This type of analysis determines natural frequencies to avoid resonance failures.
What is a modal analysis?
In thermodynamics, this equation of state improves upon the ideal gas law by accounting for intermolecular forces and finite molecular size.
What is Van der Waals equation?
In communication systems, this modulation technique varies the frequency of a carrier signal in proportion to the amplitude of the input signal.
What is Frequency Modulation (FM)?
This numerical method is used to predict how structures react to external forces, deformations, and other physical effects by breaking down complex shapes into simpler parts.
What is Finite Element Analysis (FEA)?
This concept allows different classes to define methods with the same name but different behavior.
What is polymorphism?
Name one of the last four NSBE MAP Professionals Presidents:
Tim Cole, Mitchelle Lyle, Shari Briggs, and Tristan Hickman