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100

The law that states V = IR.

What is Ohm's Law?

100

The hike first and fourth years take up Mt. Zion carrying a 10lb rock. 

What is M Climb?

100

The largest aerospace and defense company that has the longest line at Career Days.

What is Lockheed Martin?

100

The event IEEE@Mines hosts in CoorsTek during the spring and fall inviting companies to talk with students. (Nov. 16 pull up!)

What is Evening with Executives?

100

The shape that the equation y = a(x - h)² + k makes on a graph. 

What is a parabola?

200

Magnitude of the electric field inside the a hollow conducting sphere with a charge of -5.

What is 0?

200

The 17th president of Mines. (hint: probably the only one you know)

Who is PCJ?

200

Sam Altman's company (not ChatGPT) that helped you with your homework.

What is OpenAI?

200

The acronym that IEEE means.

What is the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers?

200

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

What is an omnivore?

300

The law stating the total current entering a junction or node in an electrical circuit is equal to the total current leaving the node.

What is Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL)?

300

DOUBLE POINTS (600): The year which Mines was founded.

What is 1874?

300

The largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world.

Who is TSMC?

300

The competition that IEEE hosts every year.

What is the Region 5 (R5 Competition)?

300

The 6th planet from the sun.

What is Saturn?

400

The digital logic latch comprised of two cross-coupled NOR gates

What is an SR latch?

400

The last name of the founder of Mines. (hint: a residence hall)

Who is Randall?

400

The median salary for Mines students with a bachelors degree. (within 5,000)

What is $79,000?


400

DOUBLE POINTS (800): One of the companies that will be attending EWE next week. 

Black & Veatch, Kahuna USA, Lockheed Martin, Patterson-UTI, Pure Power Engineering, Solvay, Texas Instruments, ZAP Engineering

400

The second richest person in the world and co-founder of Oracle. 

Who is Larry Ellison?

500

The mathematical process of combining an input signal with a system's impulse response to determine the system's output signal.

What is Convolution?

500

The oldest building on campus still used today. 

What is Engineering Hall & Annex?

500

The name of all 4 Electrical Engineering tracks.

Antenna and Wireless Communications (AWC), Integrated Circuits and Electronics (ICE), Information & Systems Sciences (ISS), & Power and Energy Systems (PES)

500

Names of our Executive Team (3 or more).

Elyse, Aaron, Mackenzie, Joseph, Fui-Yao, Drew, Sam, Sophia, TJ, Jerry.

500

What URL stands for.

What is Uniform resource locator?