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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The planned process of change
Imaginary
Design
Chain hoist
Cable- stayed
2. Energy of position
Ergonomics
Bending and shearing
Potential energy
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
3. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Temperature changes
Spur gears
Block and tackle
Load
4. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Nylon
Keystone
Arch
Bimetallic sensor
5. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Shape
Medium technology robot
Mechanical advantage
Width of the beam
6. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Collapse or break
Tension structures weigh less
3000 feet
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
7. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Shear
Up and down
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Tension structures weigh less
8. The I- beam is very strong because...
Beam
Two story building
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Arch
9. An optoelectronic emitter is used to do what/
Send out a light signal
Ultrasonic sensor
High technology robots
Up and down
10. The force (push or pull) used to do work
Soft clay tablets
Axes
Effort
Beam bridge
11. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Galileo
Romans
Microprocessor
12. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
Following white lines on the floor
Abutments
Design loop
Grippers
13. The improvement of things already invented
256
Strong anchorages
Innovation
Invisible
14. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Structural failure
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Shape
Pulley
15. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Irrigation
Lasers
Up
Actuators
16. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Beam
Shear
Pulley
Design brief
17. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
ENIAC
Up
Weight of the roof...
Gripper
18. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Computer language
Can perform tasks more accurately and efficiently than people - can be programmed to do a variety of jobs - and never need holidays - sleep or meal breaks
The problem solving process
Manipulator
19. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
Keystone
Actuators
Bus
Chemical reactions
20. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Foot- pounds
Truss
Specifications
Optoelectronic sensor
21. The metric unit for measuring work
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Newton - meter
Potential energy
Low technology robots
22. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
The growth of Christianity
Chain hoist
Equilibrium
Bending moment or lever arm
23. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
Law of Conservation of Energy
Ergonomics
Bit
Taller
24. 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
Piers
Bascule
Innovation
Location of the trustline
25. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Arch
Specifications
Bimetallic sensor
26. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
Read only memory
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
How far it can reach
Bell Laboratories
27. Stress can be lowered by
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Appearance model
increasing the area over which the force acts
Resistive sensor
28. The development of something completely new
Triangular shapes
Ultrasonic sensor
Invention
Optoelectronic sensor
29. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Imaginary
How much a material has changed its shape
Load
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
30. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Time and angles
Sensing systems
Truss
Microcomputer
31. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Cable- stayed
The number of pulley wheels
Chain hoist
Lasers
32. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Rack and pinion gears
Ends
Shear
Steel reinforced concrete
33. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Following white lines on the floor
Optoelectronic sensor
Functional models
Pulley
34. Work divided by time
Axes
Collapse or break
Power
Clock
35. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Low technology robots
Truss
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
36. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
It didn't always point at the North Star
Cable- stayed
Cloud chamber
Neil Armstrong
37. The robot's wrist can sometimes move in two dimensions. What are they?
Bend and rotation
Brainstorming
Innovations
A small degree of flexibility
38. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?
Cantilever
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Beam bridge
1 or 0
39. A fixed wheel with a rope or chain that is attached to a load - used to change the direction of a force or to lift heavy objects - is a
Effort
XYZ
The wheel and axle
Pulley
40. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Optoelectronic sensor
Can perform tasks more accurately and efficiently than people - can be programmed to do a variety of jobs - and never need holidays - sleep or meal breaks
XYZ
Cable- stayed
41. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Horizontal braces
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Foot- pounds
Gears
42. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Critical load/weight of the structure
Neil Armstrong
Specifications
Cable- stayed
43. Which is not a true statement about gears?
Design brief
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
The lack of pressure to continue development
44. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Fixed pulley
Worm gears
Papyrus
Bus
45. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
Axes
Flexible
Structural failure
How far it can reach
46. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
Temperature changes
ROM
Width of the beam
A library
47. A system of pulleys that consists of one rope wound around two separate sets of pulley - each of which is free to rotate independently on the same axle
Tie
Power
Width of the beam
Block and tackle
48. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
the permanent loads on a structure
1 or 0
Bridge failure
Triangular shapes
49. Distance between the piers
lever
Span
The structure will be lighter
Steel reinforced concrete
50. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Arch
Trial and error
Galileo
Mechanical advantage