Powerful Women
She is considered the world's first computer programer
Ada Lovelace
An electrical device composed of two electrical surfaces separated by an insulating material
Capacitor
The number of bits in 1 byte
8
Electric Potential
Volts
How long has the head of the ECE dept been at WPI?
25 years (Donald Brown) (Since August 2000)
She coined the term "software engineer" and was essential in the success of the Apollo missions to the moon
Margaret Hamilton
What does LCD stand for?
Liquid Crystal Display
The output of an XNOR gate
0 0 = 1
0 1 = 0
1 0 = 0
1 1 = 1
Capacitance
Farads
Before it was an academic building, what was AK?
Train Station
She invented the compiler
Grace Hopper
What is also known as 1 newton meter
1 Joule
This type of memory retains its contents even when power is turned off
Non-volatile memory
Charge
Coulombs
The school's name when it was chartered on May 10, 1865
Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science
She was the first professionally employed female electrical engineer, the first female EE professor, and the first woman to graduate with an MS in EE (from MIT). She also invented the graphing calculator (specifically for EE problems)
Edith Clarke
This transform is an integral transformation of a function, f(t), from the time domain into the complex frequency domain, F(s)
Laplace Transform
What are the two ways that carrier waves can be modulated to carry information? (Hint: think radio)
Amplitude Modulation (AM) and Frequency Modulation (FM)
Inductance
When did Atwater Kent graduate from WPI
Trick question! He enrolled in 1895, but dropped out after one semester. He came back the following year, but found his science and math courses daunting. Before the year was done, he was asked to withdraw and told his future looked dim.
(but then he worked on radios and donated tons of money to the school lol)
She invented a frequency hopping spread spectrum system that was a basis for modern Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS (She was also an actress honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
Hedy Lamarr
The function of a Galvanometer
Detect electric current
What VHDL stands for
VHSIC (very high-speed integrated circuit) Hardware Description Language
Conductance - there are two answers, you need to get both. (Both have funny names)
Siemens and Mohs
When was the EE department founded? (Bonus points for when it changed to ECE)
1896 (1992)