Engineering 101
The branch of engineering that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of roads, bridges, and buildings is classified as?
What is Civil Engineering?
This inventor is credited with patenting the telephone in 1876, what is his name?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
In Iron Man, what powers Tony Stark’s suit?
What is an Arc Reactor?
This is a famous canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
If you're analyzing how forces act on a beam in static equilibrium, what must the sum of all forces and moments be equal to?
What is Zero?
CAD stands for what in engineering design?
What is Computer-Aided Design?
This scientist discovered the elements polonium and radium, radioactivity, and researched the applications of radiation in medicine; who is she?
Who is Marie Curie?
In the "Back to the Future" movie trilogy, what speed must the DeLorean reach to achieve time travel?
What is 88 miles per hour?
Roman aqueducts were key to their infrastructure. What force, based on elevation difference, was primarily used to move water through them?
What is Gravity?
or
What is Gravitational Force?
Which of the following describes a process that is over-engineered?
A) The system fails due to insufficient factor of safety
B) The design includes unnecessary complexity with minimal functional gain
C) The design doesn't account for essential parts or designs leading to instability
D) The system optimizes for cost at the expense of reliability
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" is stated in which law?
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This famous inventor created a system for wireless power transmission and designed the induction motor and AC generator.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
In the sitcom "Big Bang Theory", which character is an aerospace engineer and astronaut who went on to travel to the ISS?
Who is Howard Wolowitz?
The Large Hadron Collider is located on the border of which two European countries?
What is France and Switzerland?
or
What is Geneva?
Which material property describes a material’s ability to return to its original shape after being deformed?
What is Elasticity?
"Energy spontaneously spreads from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration" is stated in which law?
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
This researcher invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in 1989.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
In the sci-fi movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, what is the name of the fictional computer, who is also the main antagonist?
What is HAL 9000?
Roman engineers used a special type of concrete that could set underwater, allowing them to build durable harbors and aqueducts. What volcanic material was key to this mix?
What is volcanic ash?
Which imaging modality uses high-frequency sound waves to visualize internal soft tissues in real-time?
A) MRI
B) CT
C) Ultrasound
D) PET
What is C (Ultrasound)?
This branch of math, which deals with functions and transformations rather than numbers - and is very present in control systems and signal processing - is known as what?
What is Linear Algebra?
Robert J. Van de Graaf, inventor of the Van de Graaf generator, was a member of which engineering fraternity founded in 1904?
What is Theta Tau?
In the TV series Mr. Robot, what is the name of the cybersecurity engineer protagnoist whosecretly leads a hacker group aiming to dismantle major corporations?
Who is Elliot Alderson?
The Millau Viaduct in France is one of the tallest bridges in the world. What type of bridge design does it primarily use to achieve its record-setting height?
A) Suspension bridge
B) Arch bridge
C) Cable-stayed bridge
D) Cantilever bridge
What is C?
A feedback control system that continuously adjusts output to reduce error is using what type of control mechanism?
What is a closed-loop control?