Famous Inventors/Inventions
This inventor is best known for his work with alternating current (AC) electrical systems
Who is Nikola Tesla
This set of laws describes the relationship between force, mass, and motion.
What is Newtonian Mechanics
Name 3 engineering degrees OIT offers
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering, Renewable Energy Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Embedded Systems Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology
This space shuttle disaster occurred shortly after launch due to O-ring failure in cold temperatures.
What is the Challenger disaster
This measuring tool is commonly used by engineers to measure internal, external, and depth dimensions with high precision.
What are calipers
What invention did the Walt Disney Company popularize for its parks?
What are "Audio-Animatronics" (a blend of "animate" and "electronics")
This law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or converted.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics
This room on the Portland-Metro campus is designed for prototype development.
Rapid Prototyping Lab (RPL)
This 2023 disaster involved a deep-sea submersible that catastrophically failed under extreme pressure.
What is the Titan submersible implosion
This material is an alloy of iron and carbon and is one of the most widely used engineering materials in the world.
What is steel
This ancient Greek engineer invented war machines and famously said, “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth.”
Who is Archimedes
This beam theory is used to analyze bending and deflection in structural elements.
What is Euler–Bernoulli Beam Theory
Oregon Tech offers this unique engineering path where students take part in real, long-term industry work assignments integrated into their degree through [Blank].
What is the cooperative education (MECOP) program
This bridge collapsed in 1940 due to wind-induced oscillations, famously captured on film.
What is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
Engineers use this software to create 3D models and technical drawings.
What is AutoCAD/SolidWorks
This device increases the pressure of air and is commonly used in HVAC systems, manufacturing, and power tools.
What is an air compressor
This dimensionless number helps engineers predict whether fluid flow is laminar or turbulent.
What is the Reynolds number
Name the college that engineering falls under at OIT
Engineering Technology & Management (ETM)
This airship disaster showed how flammable lift gas, static electricity, and engineering risk tradeoffs can combine into catastrophic failure during landing in 1937.
What is the Hindenburg disaster
This property of a material describes its resistance to deformation under stress.
What is stiffness (or Young’s modulus)
This mathematician and computer scientist helped break the German Enigma code during World War II.
Who is Alan Turing
These equations describe the motion of viscous fluid substances and are fundamental to fluid dynamics.
What are the Navier–Stokes equations
Name 1 engineering degree that is not offered at OIT.
Bioengineering, Chemical engineering, or Industrial engineering
This 1919 disaster in Boston involved a massive wave of sticky, thick liquid flooding the street due to the failure of its tank.
What is the Great Molasses Flood
This non-destructive testing method uses high-frequency sound waves to detect internal flaws in materials.
What is ultrasonic testing