FGCU
Black Engineers
Engineering in History Worldwide
NSBE
Engineering in History in the U.S.A.
100

This RSO was brought to FGCU in 2015 (2 possible answers).

1. NSBE

2. SHPE

100

In 1962, a group of black women engineers at NASA that computed the math to send astronaut John Glenn into orbit.

1. Katherine Johnson

2. Dorothy Vaughan

3. Mary Jackson

100

The Egyptians constructed more than 100 of these with the Great one taking a relatively quick 23 years to build.

THE PYRAMIDS

100

The founding president of NSBE.    

Edward Barnette

100

In 1865 the world's first oil pipeline was constructed in this state & ran a straight course of about 5 miles,

PENNSYLVANIA

200

According to Dr. Kim, this book is worth $6 Million.

Chin Book

200

This aerospace engineer became the first Black man to travel to space in 1983.

Guion Bluford Jr.

200

The Eiffel Tower was built using 2.5 million rivets & 14 million pounds of this material.

IRON

200

FGCU's first NSBE president.

Jabari Lee.

200

Boulder City Nevada was built to house the workers who constructed the 1930s structure now called this.

HOOVER DAM

300

The approximate number of students enrolled in the U.A. Whitaker College of Engineering.

1000

300

This self-taught engineer who became the first major Black video game engineer and designer. They also created the first cartridge-based video game console. 

Jerry Lawson

300

Containing 167 arches one of these built in 50 A.D. is still delivering water from the Frio River to Segovia Spain.

AN AQUEDUCT

300

NSBE's colors.

Red, Yellow, Green, and Black

300

Founded in 1802 this military group surveys roads & canals builds lighthouses & maps navigation channels.

THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

400

The most hated program in Comp. Tools.

1. Matlab

2. Excel

400

This aerospace engineer and physicist became the first Black woman to travel to space in 1992. 

Mae Jemison

400

It was the Persians not the Dutch who invented this energy-producing machine to grind grain.

A WINDMILL

400

The mission of NSBE is to increase the number of _____ responsible black engineers who excel _____, succeed _____, and _____ impact the community. 

culturally, academically, professionally, positively. 

400

Connecting lower Manhattan with Jersey City it was the world's first ventilated underwater vehicular tunnel.

THE HOLLAND TUNNEL

500

The number of engineer RSOs at FGCU.

10

500

The brain behind the machine that extracts moisture from the atmosphere to make water.

Moses West

500

The motto of this 1904-1914 engineering project was The land divided the world united.

THE PANAMA CANAL

500

FGCU's NSBE chapter is part of this region. 

3

500

The USA's largest producer of hydropower this Washington structure has 12 million cubic yards of concrete.

THE GRAND COULEE DAM