ASU
What are ASU’s official school colors?
Maroon and Gold
What does "Ohm’s Law" state?
V=IR
Who is credited with inventing the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What does "CPU" stand for?
Central Processing Unit
What is the only even prime number?
2
ASU’s engineering school was renamed in honor of which notable entrepreneur and philanthropist?
Ira A. Fulton
What component stores electrical energy in an electric field?
Capacitor
This scientist’s laws of motion form the foundation of classical mechanics.
Isaac Newton
This is the most commonly used semiconductor material in modern electronics.
Silicon
The speed of light in a vacuum is approximately how many meters per second?
3.00×108 m/s
What year was ASU officially founded?
1885
What is the fundamental frequency of the electrical grid in the United States?
60 Hz
Who developed the alternating current (AC) system used in modern electrical power distribution?
Nikola Tesla
What is the name of the programming language that is widely used in embedded systems and microcontroller programming?
C
The deepest point in the ocean is located in which trench?
Mariana Trench
What is the name of ASU’s student-run makerspace for engineering students?
Generator Labs
The first transistor was invented at Bell Labs in what year?
1947
This computer scientist is known as the “father of artificial intelligence.”
Alan Turing
Moore’s Law predicts that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every how many years?
2 years
The modern-day city of Istanbul was formerly known by what name before 1930?
Constantinople
In 2022, ASU partnered with NASA on a lunar rover mission. What is the name of the rover?
LunaH-Map
In signal processing, what mathematical transformation is commonly used to convert a signal from the time domain to the frequency domain?
Fourier Transform
Who developed the first successful integrated circuit?
Jack Kilby
The first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, was released in what year?
1971
In Morse code, which letter is represented by a single dot?