Pop Culture Movies
"On Wednesdays, we wear pink!"
What is Mean Girls?
Whale shark: shark or whale
What is shark
The reason Mueller Hall is underground
What is (the view of) Roberts Hall?
The unit related to strain
What is meter/meter, unitless, or dimensionless?
The main 3 classes of materials.
What are metals, polymers, and ceramics?
Oppenheimer's famous quote.
What is "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
The color flamingos are when they're born
What is white or gray?
Our fun, sassy, integrated undergrad lab instructor!
Who is Professor Hanson Fong?
Process where a material is heated then cooled to alter microstructure & mechanical properties.
What is heat treatment?
Difference between concrete and cement
What is aggregate?
(Concrete = cement + aggregate. Cement = magic ceramic)
Elle Woods' LSAT score from Legally Blonde
What is 179?
The gesture bees use to communicate with each other
What is dancing?
First name of the new undergrad advisor
Danny
The failure mode when a material experiences permanent deformation without fracture.
What is creep?
UW SAMPE club's main projects.
What are composite beams?
The code in the Matrix movies are actually describing/made of
What are sushi recipes?
The most venomous octopus
What is the blue-ringed octopus?
The year UW MSE became established.
When is 1893?
The phase of steel obtained by quickly quenching to room temperature
What is martensite?
The professor responsible for his LAMP research group.
Who is Dr. Dwayne Arola?
Game played in the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie
What is Liar's Dice?
Responsible for about 1 million deaths annually.
What is a mosquito?
The type of book Professor Navid Zobeiry has published (excluding his academic ones)
What is a cookbook?
Space groups that also include the spins of atoms in the lattice
What are magnetic space groups?
The reason an email got sent early Autumn about Roberts Hall water fountains being clogged.
What are coffee grounds?