WPI History
AIAA History
Name that Old Guy
WPI/AIAA fun facts
100
This is the year WPI was founded
What is 1865?
100
This is the Region that the WPI AIAA Student Branch belongs to.
What is Region 1?
100
Who is Robert Goddard?
100
This is the year that WPI AIAA was founded.
What is 1986?
200
These 2 buildings were the first to arrive on WPI's campus.
What are Boynton Hall and Washburn Shops?
200
This is the year that AIAA (the national organization) was founded.
What is 1963?
200
Who is Nikolaos Gatsonis (head of the AE Department)?
200
These are the names of every current WPI AIAA officer.
Who is Laura Hiu, Mo Lockwood, Maya Stubbs, Adnan Dembele, and Matt Milne?
300
This is the number of founders of WPI.
What is 9?
300
These are the names of the 2 organizations that merged to form AIAA.
What are the American Rocket Society (ARS) and the Institute of Aerospace Sciences (IAS)?
300
This old guy has been to the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
300
These are the 3 main projects you complete while at WPI. (full names, no acronyms)
What is Humanities & Arts, Interactive Qualifying Project, and Major Qaalifying Project?
400
This is the year the WPI Plan was adopted, creating a unique project-based curriculum rto replace rigid traditional requirements with project centers, interactive qualifying projects, and seven-week terms.
What is 1970?
400
This is the name of the current AIAA CEO.
Who is Clay Mowry?
400
This old guy invented the first plane.
Who is Orville Wright?
400
Name 2 previous subcomittees of WPI AIAA.
What are HPRC, WoAA, and/or Astronomy?
500
Before the school became WPI, this was the original chartered name.
What is Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science?
500
This is the estimated total membership of AIAA at its founding. (within a 10% margin of error)
What is 36,500?
Acceptable answers: 32,850 - 40,150
500
This old guy was the chief architect for Saturn V.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
500
This is the WPI Fight Song (presented in song).
E to the X, D-Y, D-X. E to the X, D-X. Cosine, Secant, Tangent, Sine, 3.14159. E-I, Radical, Pi. Fight 'em, Fight 'em WPI!