NSBE 101
OSU NSBE History
Black STEM History
Black History
Engineering Fundamentals
100

This is what NSBE stands for.

What is National Society of Black Engineers?

100

This person was the 2024-2025 OSU president.

Who is Albert Assifuah?

100

This NASA mathematician helped calculate trajectories for the Apollo missions.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

100

This month is nationally recognized as Black History Month in the United States.

What is February?

100

This equation represents Ohm’s Law.

What is V = IR?

200

NSBE was founded in this year.

What is 1975?

200

OSU NSBE belongs to this NSBE region.

What is Region V?

200

This engineer invented the Super Soaker water gun.

Who is Lonnie Johnson?

200

This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

200

This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What is Newton’s Third Law?

300

This university is where NSBE was founded.

What is Purdue University?

300

Oklahoma State sits in this zone in Region V.

What is Oklahoma Zone? 

300

This astronaut became the first Black woman in space in 1992.

Who is Mae Jemison?

300

This historically Black university was the first HBCU established in the United States in 1837.

What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?

300

This type of stress occurs when forces pull materials apart.

What is tensile stress?

400

NSBE’s mission includes increasing the number of these types of engineers.

 What are culturally responsible Black engineers?


400

Before becoming a chartered NSBE chapter, our organization was known by this name.

What was SBETA?

400

This IBM engineer helped develop the first personal computer and holds multiple patents.

Who is Mark Dean.

400

This NASA mathematician’s work was highlighted in the book and movie Hidden Figures.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

400

In operations research, this optimization method is used to maximize or minimize a linear objective function subject to constraints.

What is Linear Programming?

500

NSBE is divided into this many geographic regions across the United States and abroad.

What is 6 regions?

500

These individuals currently serve as advisors for OSU NSBE.

Who are Brenda Morales and Yokolanda Spieght?

500

This agricultural scientist revolutionized crop rotation and research at Tuskegee Institute.

Who is George Washington Carver?

500

This constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

What is the 13th Amendment?

500

This dimensionless number compares inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid flow and determines whether flow is laminar or turbulent.

What is the Reynolds Number?