Current Events in Engineering
Engineering Wonders
Miscellaneous
Safety
100
A cargo ship (named 'Dali') struck a support column of this bridge, leading the entire truss span of the bridge to collapse.
What is the Francis Scott Key Bridge? (Key Bridge also accepted)
100
This manmade waterway helped to reduce the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
This province holds 29 of 31 essential minerals on the 2021 critical minerals list.
What is Manitoba?
100
This PPE protects against falling objects and hitting fixed objects.
What are hard hats?
200
This aerospace giant is facing renewed scrutiny as quality issues resurface with their airplanes (specifically with the Alaska and LATAM airlines).
What is Boeing?
200
The most photographed bridge in the world that held the title for being the tallest suspension bridge in the world until 1998.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
200
Better known as the maker of Galaxy smartphones, what Korean conglomerate was also the main contractor that built Dubai's Burj Khalifa?
What is Samsung?
200
The process of recognizing potential risks and dangers in the workplace.
What is Hazard Identification?
300
This company helps link mind with machines.
What is Neuralink?
300
This observation tower was the tallest free-standing structure in the world from 1975 until 2007.
What is the CN Tower?
300
Glow-in-the-dark products are made of this essential element.
What is phosphorus?
300
This is the full form of the WHMIS acronym.
What is the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System?
400
This American chip manufacturer is at the forefront of AI Supercomputing.
What is NVIDIA?
400
This underwater infrastructure connects an island nation with the European mainland.
What is the Channel Tunnel?
400
This physical measurement is technically defined as force divided by the area over which that force is being applied? Queen and David Bowie performed a song about being under it.
What is Pressure?
400
Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented this revolutionary V-type three-point version of what safety object in 1959?
What is a seatbelt?
500
This is Saudi Arabia's 170km long futuristic linear smart sustainable city without cars or streets.
What is The Line?
500
Built in 1907-1908, this steel through truss bridge over the Red River remains the oldest surviving bridge in Winnipeg.
What is Redwood / Harry Lazarenko Bridge?
500
The last letter of the Greek alphabet that also represents unit of electrical resistance.
What is Ohm?
500
Often associated with mattresses and desk chairs, this term is used to describe the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and construction of products? The goal is typically to reduce human error and enhance safety and comfort.
What is ergonomics?