Engineering Fundamentals
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted.
What is the law of Conservation of Energy?
This acronym describes a programmable device widely used in automation and manufacturing.
What is a PLC?
This Serbian-American electrical engineer is best known for his contributions to the design of the AC electricity supply system
Who is Tesla?
Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle was paid in the "low seven figures" by the New York Times in January 2022 for this wildly popular daily game
What is Wordle?
In 1913, Henry Ford popularized this factory method where each worker repeats one step to speed up production
What is an assembly line?
This basic machine makes work easier by changing the direction of a force.
What is a lever?
This international automotive quality management standard is used at Danfoss to ensure consistent product, process, and supplier quality.
What is IATF (or IATF 16949)?
This Danish engineer founded Danfoss in 1933 after developing an automatic expansion valve for refrigeration systems.
Who is Mads Clausen?
In the early ‘90s, Symantec acquired a software program developed by a computer programmer named Peter Norton. It’s since become one of the most commonly used and well-known of this kind of computer security software
What is an antivirus?
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee created this system that made it easy to access and share information through linked pages.
What is the World Wide Web?
This property of a material describes how much it deforms under stress.
What is elasticity?
This acronym describes a standardized way for software systems to communicate with each other.
What is API (Application programming interface)?
This New Jersey native graduated from West Point with a degree in mechanical engineering and is known as the second man to land on the moon.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
The machine learning model ChatGPT stands for "Chat Generative Pre-trained _______"
What is Transformer?
In 1942, this adhesive was invented during WWII and later became famous for instantly bonding materials like metal, plastic, and rubber.
What is Super Glue?
This term is used for a testing environment in which new or untested software or coding can be run securely.
What is a sandbox?
This acronym refers to the total cost resulting from defects and failures.
What is CoPQ?
This Englishman was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer, and is largely considered the originator of the concept of a digital programmable computer.
Who is Charles Babbage?
This virus created in 1971 by Bob Thomas, is widely recognized as the first computer virus.
Creeper
In 1947, this insect caused a physical malfunction in a computer, which led to the popularization of the term "bug" and "debugging" to describe fixing errors in programs.
What is a moth?
This dimensionless number compares inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid flow.
What is the Reynolds number
This acronym measures the predicted average time between inherent failures of a system.
What is MTBF (Mean time between failures)
This Ancient Greek mathematician and scientist is credited with a lot of discoveries and inventions, including his “screw”—an engineering principle that’s a key feature of hydraulics
Who is Archimedes?
In 1997, this Microsoft media player with custom visualizations, plug-ins, and cool skins hit the scene just in time to take advantage of the mp3 trend
What is Winamp?
Named after a German engineer born in 1832, this is the name of the idealized thermodynamic cycle that is the typical cycle used by internal combustion engines
What is the Otto Cycle?