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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Provides direction for the work of the designer






2. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge






3. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?






4. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?






5. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of






6. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:






7. The controller is what part of the robot?






8. My name means 'seesaw' in French and the English dictionary describes me as a level -- something that is counterbalanced - so that when one end is lowered - the other is raised






9. What is a touchstone?






10. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge






11. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called






12. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction






13. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made






14. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?






15. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:






16. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?






17. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?






18. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on






19. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?






20. The three types of arches are...






21. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...






22. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it






23. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires






24. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys






25. When a machine multiplies the effort being used






26. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?






27. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?






28. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?






29. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?






30. Shear is best described as...






31. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?






32. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.






33. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they






34. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...






35. The dead load of a structure is






36. How many combinations of eight bits are there?






37. The five types of stress are...






38. A force that opposes motion






39. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?






40. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?






41. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?






42. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building






43. The three basic types of bridges are...






44. Strain is a measure of...






45. The force applied to a lever






46. What is the name of the robot's arm?






47. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?






48. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?






49. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load






50. The planned process of change