ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER?
KGCOE
RIT HISTORY
ENGINEERING HISTORY
I SHOULD KNOW THIS AS AN ENGINEER
100
How many meters are in a mile?
1409 meters
100
Who is the Dean of KGCOE?
Doreen Edwards
100
What is the fully opened newest building on campus?
The SHED
100
who is the “Father of Electricity”? This inventor created the first practical incandescent light bulb and developed an entire power distribution system.
Thomas Edison
100
What is m=(x2−x1)/(y2−y1)?
This formula gives the slope of a line between two points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2)?
200
What do we call the change from liquid to gas?
Evaporation
200
Who was Kate Gleason?
- She was one of the first women to attend an engineering school.
- Major contributor to her family’s company, Gleason Corp., and she also was the first woman to serve as president of a national bank.
- Gleason was the first female member of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Concrete Institute.
200
Who is the current President?
Dr. Willian H. Sanders
200
What degree of measurement did David Bowie and Queen write a song about?
Pressure
"Under Pressure"
200
What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion?
This of Newton’s laws is commonly summarized as “F = ma.”
300
A triangle has angles 90°, 30°, and _____.
Fill in the missing angle.
60° (Angles sum to 180°)
300
How many programs are in KGCOE?
BS, MS, PhD included
22
300
Name 3 of the original buildings on campus
Gosnell, Gleason, COLA, Booth, Gannett, Library, Eastman
300
What New Orleans structure failed in 2005, leading to claims of “the worst engineering disaster since Chernobyl”?
Levees
300
What is the number of particles in one mole?
Avogadro’s number, approximately 6.022×1023 represents this quantity.
400
What continent is Egypt in?
Africa
400
When did RIT name the college after Kate Gleason?
1998
400
What year was RIT founded?
1829
400
Through what process does electrical energy get transformed into mechanical energy by a motor?
Electromagnetic Transduction
400
What is the magnitude of the vector ⟨3,4⟩ ?
Use magnitude formula
|v| =√(a2+ b2).
= 5
500
Is the word "quickly" an adjective or an adverb?
Adverb
500
How many undergraduate students are in KGCOE?
2,547
(2,500-2,600 accepted)
500
In 2008, the Golisano Institute for Sustainability creates the world’s first Ph.D. program focused on
sustainable production
500
What was the name of the first satellite launched in 1957?
Sputnik 1
500
A drone is moving horizontally at 12 m/s when it begins to accelerate at 2 m/s².
After 3 seconds, its acceleration increases to 5 m/s², and it continues accelerating for 2 more seconds.
What is the final velocity of the drone?
v1=v0+at=12+(2)(3)=12+6=18m/s
v2=v1+at=18+(5)(2)=18+10=28m/s
Ans= 28m/s