NSBE
The location of the 2025 NSBE National Conference
What is Chicago, IL?
This imaging technique uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to generate detailed images of the body.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
The unit of electrical resistance.
What is the ohm?
The force that acts downward on structures due to gravity.
What is weight?
The branch of mechanics that studies motion without considering forces.
What is kinematics?
The year NSBE was founded at Purdue University.
What is 1975?
The material commonly used for hip and knee implants due to its biocompatibility and strength.
What is titanium?
This electronic component stores charge and is measured in farads.
What is a capacitor?
The name of the horizontal structural element that supports loads between two points, such as in bridges and buildings.
What is a beam?
The equation τ = r × F defines this measure of rotational force.
What is torque?
The NSBE mission is "to increase the number of ______ who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community."
Who are Black engineers?
The branch of biomedical engineering focused on designing artificial limbs.
What is prosthetics?
The law stating that the sum of currents entering a junction equals the sum of currents leaving it.
What is Kirchhoff’s Current Law?
The type of bridge that uses cables suspended from towers to support the roadway.
What is a suspension bridge?
The type of heat transfer that occurs through direct molecular interaction.
What is conduction?
NSBE's strategic goal is to graduate this many Black engineers annually by 2025.
What is 10,000?
This U.S. regulatory agency oversees the safety and effectiveness of medical devices
What is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)?
This type of memory is volatile and is used for temporary storage while a computer is running.
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
The type of soil testing done to determine the ability of the ground to support structures.
What is a geotechnical survey?
This term describes the maximum stress a material can withstand before it breaks.
What is the ultimate tensile strength?
The region 3 chairperson.
Who is Tyler Saunders?
The type of tissue engineering scaffolds designed to degrade over time as new tissue forms.
What are biodegradable scaffolds?
The hardware component responsible for executing instructions in a computer system.
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit)?
A large excavated depression system that is designed to temporarily store stormwater runoff.
What is a dentention pond?
The term for the resistance of a fluid to shear stress, often measured in pascal-seconds.
What is viscosity?