Quick Math
This mathematician has a theorem explaining the hypotenuse’ relationship to the other two sides of a triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
This microcontroller is used in basic computer programming and hardware design. The language this device uses is C and many students use it in Intro to Engineering
What is an Arduino?
Dr. Shanley’s common companion pleased many students. This beautiful dog was always paying attention to lectures, even when students were not.
Who is Beau?
While newer movies of this franchise are scrutinized, the original movie released was the fourth movie in 1977. The first movie was released in 1999.
What is Star Wars?
The speed of this physics concept is constant. This is often an word used to describe illumination of a room as well.
What is light?
This is concept used in heat transfer, physics 2, and other math courses to describe the value of a function’s slope.
What is a derivative?
This concept is often used to describe resistance to motion. The equation to calculate the resistance is coefficient of this concept times the normal force.
What is friction?
Engineering Innovation Hub, also known as EIH, was constructed in this year and is the newest building on campus. However, due to COVID-19, it was unable to be used until the class of ‘26 came in to use it in 2022.
When is 2019?
This car helped Marty McFly travel back to the future. Marty McFly being the main character of the aforementioned setting.
What is the Delorean?
Gustav Holst’s composed a piece which was used for the “God Save the Queen”. This piece refers to the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter? [bonus for: Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity]
The integral of x^-1
What is the natural log of x? [What is ln x?]
This course is the capstone project for all SUNY New Paltz Engineering Students. It requires 2 semesters, typically in the final year for students.
What is Senior Design?
This is the number of credits any engineer needs to complete in order to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY New Paltz.
How much is 125? [Accept 120-155]
This character is an icon whose planet’s sign for peace was the pointer and middle finger connected, a gap, and the ring and pinkie finger connected.
Who is Spock?
This relationship is not only used in the subject, but also in heat transfer to describe an object’s prevention of heat transfer. The main relation states that voltage is resistance times current.
What is Ohm’s Law?
This is the value of epi*i+1
What is zero?
This fundamental principle states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. (This also explains why perpetual motion machines are nonsense.)
What is the law of conservation of energy?
This is the room that this is currently being hosted in.
What is REH 109?
Neil deGrease Tyson praised this film for its accuracy. The main protagonist of the film was a botanist, who was able to survive in a human outpost by using his own excrement to grow potatoes.
What is The Martian?
This year marked when humans first landed on the moon.
When is 1969?
The product of a diagonal matrix’s non-zero numbers.
What is the determinant?
This is the rotational analog of force, calculated as the product of a force and its lever arm.
What is torque?
This is the accreditation that the SUNY New Paltz Engineering program receives.
What is ABET accreditation?
The band Pink Floyd was originally composing music for this film. Stanley Kubrick directed this film with the iconic Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
This unit of distance used in astronomy is equivalent to about 3.26 light-years. It is defined as the distance at which one astronomical unit (the Earth-Sun distance) subtends an angle of one arcsecond.
What is a parsec?