Engineering Disciplines
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Engineering @ Pitt
100
This discipline focuses on structural integrity and the well-being of daily commuters.
What is Civil Engineering
100
A quantity having direction as well as magnitude, especially as determining the position of one point in space relative to another.
What is a vector.
100
This element has the symbol Po.
What is Polonium.
100
These brothers performed the first successful example of Aerospace Engineering at Kitty Hawk, NC.
Who are the Wright Brothers.
100
Which department is Swanson's highest ranked program, at 15th overall, and 6th of public institutions?
What is the BioE department.
200
This discipline focuses on the integration of engineering in relation to the human body.
What is Biomedical Engineering.
200
The inverse operation of differentiation.
What is an antiderivative.
200
6.022 x 10^23 units = what?
What is a mole.
200
The Aerial screw was invented by this Italian inventor.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci.
200
What job placement over the past three years does the co-op office boast?
What is 95-97%
300
Java, Python, C++, C, Matlab, Mathematica are all languages "spoken" by engineers in this discipline.
What is Computer and Electrical Engineering.
300
This is the result of dividing an integer by zero.
What is undefined/ no solution.
300
9.81 m/s^2 is the acceleration of what?
What is gravity.
300
The tallest man–made structure in the world for over 3,800 years, until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in 1300.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza, at an original height of 146.5 metres (481 ft).
300
Who is the Dean of Engineering? (Full name)
Who is Gerald Holder.
400
This is the largest branch of engineering in the world.
What is Mechanical Engineering.
400
The sixth digit of Pi.
What is nine (9).
400
The first derivative of displacement of a body in motion is equal to its what? (Hint: second derivative is acceleration).
What is velocity.
400
Sources say that 112 workers died building this colossal engineering feat on the Colorado River, which was finished in 1936.
What is the Hoover Dam.
400
When was Swanson founded?
What is 1846.
500
Frederick W. Taylor is said to be the father of this form of operations engineering.
What is Industrial Engineering.
500
A line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance.
What is an asymptote.
500
According to this theory an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's First Law (Inertia).
500
Which spacecraft was the first to successfully land human beings on the moon?
What is Apollo 11.
500
How many students are in Pitt's undergraduate engineering program? (Last data - 2013)
What is 2625 students.