Female Science Inventions
Mechanical Engineering
WPI facts
WPI Buildings
Vocab
100

MARIE CURIE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY FOR HER DEVELOPMENT OF THIS THEORY (THAT ALSO ULTIMATELY KILLED HER)

RADIOACTIVITY

100

This is a field of engineering concerned with using mechanics and energy to design and build machines

mechanical engineers 

100

WHEN WAS WPI FOUNDED?

A. 1777

B. 1869

C. 1865

C. 1865

100

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT BUILDING 

HIGGANS

100

PROFESSIONALS WHO USE SCIENTIC KNOWLEDGE AND MATHEMATICS TO SOLVE A PROBLEM BY CREATING NEW TECHNOLOGIES 

ENGINEERS

200

THIS FEMALE SCIENTIST IS THE WORLD’S EXPERT ON CHIMPANZEES.

A. Diane Goodman 

B. Jane Goodall

C. Elizabeth Magie

B. JANE GOODALL (Tarzan)

200

MOST BASIC ME CLASS AT WPI

ME 1800

200

WHAT IS WPI BEST KNOWN FOR?

A. PROJECT BASED LEARNING 

B. GOOD PROFESSORS 

C. FANTASTIC FOOD

A. PROJECT BASED LEARNING 

200

ECE BULIDING 

ATWATER KENT

200

ENERGY THAT IS BEING STORED 

POTENTIAL ENERGY

300

WHO INVENTED THE WINDSHEILD WIPER?  
A. Jennifer Moss 

B. Mary Anderson 

C. Margret E. Knight 

B. Mary Anderson 

300
WHAT DOES CAD STAND FOR?

COUPUTER AIDED DESIGN

300

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ENROLLED AT WPI?

A. 3210

B. 10876

C. 5224

C. 5224

300

MATH BUILDING 

STRATON 

300

AN INCREASE OF SPEED OVER TIME

ACCELERATION

400

CLARA BARTON WAS A FAMOUS CIVIL WAR NURSE THAT FOUNDED THIS MEDICAL ORGANIZATION

A. RED CROSS

B. BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD 

C. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

RED CROSS

400

What is the process of machining using rotary cutters to remove material[1] by advancing a cutter into a workpiece?

Milling 

400

WHICH BUILDING IS THE WPI GREENHOUSE LOCATED?

SALISBURY

400

CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING

KAVEN

400

ENERGY THAT MOVES AN OBJECT

MECHANICAL ENERGY

500

WHO HAS DONE INNOVATIONARY ADVANCEMENTS IN ROBOTICS AND AI?

A. DONNA STICKLAND

B. PATRICIA BILLINGS

C. RUZENA BAJCSY

C. RUZENA BAJCSY

500

Name the four forces that mechanical engineers need to balance when designing a vehicle.

What is thrust, drag, lift, and gravity

500

WHAT WPI BUILDING IS THE OLDEST?

A. BOYTON HALL

B. OLIN HALL

C. THE LIBRARY 


A. BOYTON HALL

500

IMGD BUILDING 

FULLER

500

A TECHNOLOGY THAT MOVES AND USES MECHANICAL ENERGY TO PERFORM WORK

A MACHINE