Engineering Fails
This 2023 deep-sea vessel used a carbon-fiber composite pressure hull and imploded during a dive to the Titanic.
What is the Titan submersible?
A handheld graphite-deposition device used to transfer information onto processed wood pulp.
What is a pencil?
This is the year Wake received its ABET accreditation.
What is 2022?
These are Theta Tau’s two official colors.
What are dark red and gold?
Who is Ava Killacky?
The pedestrian Millennium Bridge in this European capital temporarily closed after crowds caused it to sway unexpectedly.
What is London?
A miniature wheeled transportation system attached directly to each foot.
What are roller skates?
Before moving to Winston-Salem, Wake Forest was located in this North Carolina town.
What is Wake Forest, North Carolina?
This brother accidentally kept forgetting to get her merch... for the whole semester.
Who is Ronny?
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse demonstrates why engineers must account for this environmental force.
What is Wind?
A wearable vision-correction system consisting of precisely shaped transparent materials supported by a facial frame.
What are glasses?
According to a Wake Forest Magazine entry from 2014, this building once had a nuclear shelter in its basement during the Cold War.
What is Tribble Hall?
Theta Tau’s important symbols include these three objects.
What are the gear, hammer, and tongs?
Name one of the members of the oldest PC
NASA lost this spacecraft after one engineering team used metric units while another used U.S. customary units.
What is the Mars Climate Orbiter?
An elastic potential-energy storage device used to launch small objects at irresponsible velocities.
What is a slingshot?
The Wake athletic teams were referred to by these two nicknames before they were nicknamed the Demon Deacons.
What are the "Old Gold and Black" and "The Baptists"
This faculty member serves as the chapter’s advisor.
Who is Danno?
Name a brother who is an engineering minor
I can't name them all but I know at least Tristan?
A 1981 design change to the suspended walkways in this Kansas City hotel doubled the load placed on a critical connection, causing it to collapse.
What is the Hyatt Regency?
A portable, manually deployed precipitation-interception device.
What is an umbrella?
This U.S. President attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the transition from the original campus to our Winston Salem Campus.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The founders of Theta Tau were studying this type of engineering.
what is mining engineering?