All about Pratt
Duke University
Engineering
Pratt Leaders
Miscellaneous
100
He is the current dean of the Pratt School of Engineering.
Who is Dean Lynch?
100
He founded Duke University in 1924. (Full name required)
Who is James Buchanan Duke?
100
EGR 101: This scoring matrix is a criteria-based decision matrix which uses criteria scoring to determine which of several potential solutions or alternatives should be selected.
What is a Pugh Scoring Matrix?
100
This is the name of the Society of Women Engineers president. (First and Last)
Who is Catherine Consiglio?
100
This is the most manufactured drink in the world.
What is tea?
200
This is Wilkinson's first name.
Who is Jerry C. Wilkinson?
200
This non-engineering major has the second largest amount of students at Duke.
What is Economics?
200
Chem 101: This is the chemical symbol for Antimony.
What is Sb?
200
This is the ESG President this year! (First and last name)
Who is Eliana Durkee?
200
This is the amount of cones in a mantis shrimp's eyes.
What is 23 cones?
300
This is the year that an engineering school was added to Duke University.
When is 1939?
300
The names of all 14 Duke East campus dorms.
What are Trinity, Southgate, Gilbert Addoms, Blackwell, Randolph, Belltower, Wilson, Giles, Pegram, Alspaugh, Basset, Brown, East House, West House?
300
EGR 103: This singular function in Python takes an iterable object and outputs pairs of indices and values.
What is enumerate()?
300
This faculty member runs the Foundry!
Who is Ali Stocks?
300
Known as the “Father of Modern Physics,” he developed the theory of quantum mechanics.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
400
For many years after Hudson Hall was built, it had this nickname.
What is "Old Red"?
400
This is the major of the first black Duke Men's basketball player.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
400
PHYS 152: This is the vector that is perpendicular to the magnetic field vector and the electric field vector.
What is the Poynting Vector?
400
This is Dr. Fitzpatrick's website for Math 218.
What is bfitz.xyz?
400
This is what HTTP stands for.
What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
500
This is the first ever dean of the Pratt School of Engineering.
Who is William H. Hall?
500
This is the Duke sports team that has won the most national championships.
What is Women's Golf?
500
MATH 218: This procedure is a factorization of a real or complex matrix into a rotation, followed by a rescaling followed by another rotation. It generalizes the eigendecomposition of a square normal matrix with an orthonormal eigenbasis to any m×n
What is Singular Value Decomposition?
500
This individual ported UNIX to Duke's very first departmental computer.
Who is Dr. John Board? (HE DID THIS AS A STUDENT!)
500
The word "robot" comes from this language, meaning forced labor/work.
What is Czech?