Scientific Knowledge
ChBE Faculty
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Meme Culture
100
This greek symbol, representing 14th letter of the Greek alphabet has this hard-to-pronounce name. Hint: it’s not squiggle ξ
What is xi (ksi)? (kz-eye)
100
Before this faculty member turned their research focus toward the proposed effects of methane gas, they published a PhD thesis titled “A Numerical Study of Bubble Deformation in Steady Axisymmetric Flows” studying “deformation of a gas bubble rising through a quiescent fluid”.
Who is Gregory Ryskin?
100
This country's dominant national team has won half of the FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments ever conducted, including the recent 2019 iteration, and finished in the top 3 in all of them.
What is the United States?
100
Template for the ChBE meme of 2018, this image has a guy looking back at a girl while holding hands with another girl
What is distracted boyfriend?
200
This empirically derived factor describes the effective partial pressure of a real gas in chemical equilibrium
What is fugacity?
200
Our department is home to FOUR current members of the National Academy of Engineers from a broad range of research areas (the department website is wrong!), including this most recent member.
Who is Linda Broadbelt?
200
Normally seen as a curse, this team recently bucked the trend and became the only National Football League team to ever qualify for a Super Bowl hosted at their home stadium. They won it too.
Who are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
200
The original image of this memed house pet depicts him surrounded with his inner monologue in multicolor text
Who is doge?
300
This Law of Thermodynamics describes the transitive relation between systems in which if two thermodynamic systems are in equilibrium with a third, then they are in equilibrium with each other.
What is the zeroeth law of thermodynamics?
300
This school, just bear-ly, is the most common alma mater of the department’s CURRENT Core faculty.
What is University of California, Berkeley? (Although when Jeff Lopez joins the department, Stanford will be tied)
300
Similar to the Chicago Cubs, this Major League Baseball team, the most recent to change its name, also has an alliterative moniker.
Who are the Miami Marlins?
300
If you have diamond hands and your going to the moon, you're probably losing a lot of money from this equity
What is stonks?
400
The Schrodinger equation describes the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, where this operator corresponds to the total energy of the system.
What is the Hamiltonian?
400
This professor completed his/her undergraduate degree in chemistry, post-doctoral degree in bioengineering, and Ph.D. in chemical physics
Who is Julius Lucks?
400
This baseball feat, the mark of a legendary day for a pitcher, has, as of Joe Musgrove’s April 9th 2021 performance, been accomplished by every active team for the first time in exactly 60 years. Nolan Ryan accomplished this 7 times, which is the record and Carlos Rodón did it two nights ago.
What is a no-hitter?
400
2020 happened because we killed this time-traveling gorilla that tried to warn us about the future
Who is Harambe?
500
The Reynolds number describes the ratio of inertial forces to these forces of a flowing fluid.
What are viscosity forces?
500
The graduate coordinator for our department who has an MFA in Shakespeare Performance
Who is Elizabeth Rentfro?
500
If you ever watched a game and thought that you could play better than the pros, you would love this role which allowed 42-year old amateur David Ayes to not only play in, but help defeat his hometown team in a professional game in 2020.
What is the hockey emergency goalie?
500
This comedic looking frog tells us this, the part of the week referred to as hump day
What is "It's Wednesday, my dudes"?