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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. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Tension structures weigh less
Read only memory
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Program
2. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Shape
Design loop
The bowstring girder
Its depth
3. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?
First- class levers
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
add a diagonal member
Ends
4. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Design brief
Bell Laboratories
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
5. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
Flexible
Span
Bus
The cable- stayed bridge
6. The lesson used an illustration of a robot filling boxes. The sensors detected if the box had moved. What kind of sensor was used?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Optoelectronic sensor
Beam
Effort
7. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Balanced
Rack and pinion gears
Resistance
Technology
8. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Technology
A waist twisting
increasing the area over which the force acts
Extend and retract
9. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Bus
Piers
Clock
Axes
10. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Collapse or break
Following white lines on the floor
Its depth
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
11. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
High technology robots
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
Balanced
Deck
12. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
ENIAC
Axes
Soft clay tablets
Low technology robots
13. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Bending and shearing
Measurement - evaluation - and control
ENIAC
Wheel and axle
14. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
The growth of Christianity
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Interstate highway system
Beam - arch - and suspension
15. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum - used to overcome a resistance or to raise a weight when force is applied is a
Gears
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
lever
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
16. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
Balanced
Mechanical advantage
Beam
Screw
17. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers
Beam
Problems
Fulcrum
Cable- stayed
18. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Triangular lateen sail
Protect other people working around them
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Nylon
19. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Irrigation systems
James Watt
Third- class lever
Size - shape - and type of material
20. 550 foot- pounds per second
Ramp
Effort
Suspension
Horsepower
21. Provides problem clarification and specification
Triangular shapes
Bending moment or lever arm
Optoelectronic sensor
Design brief
22. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Problems
Sliding
Design loop
Its depth
23. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Cable- stayed
Instruction set
High technology robots
24. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables
Manipulator
Chemistry
Microcomputer
Hung
25. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Cable- stayed
256
Shear
Up and down
26. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?
Ergonomics
Bend and rotation
Protect other people working around them
1 or 0
27. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Invention
Beam
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Tower
28. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Up and down
Solve problems
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
29. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
Innovations
Bell Laboratories
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Memory addresses
30. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
Twisting
Rack and pinion gears
A rock used to test metal for quality
The calendar
31. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Most famous
Bus
Tower
Clock
32. The controller is what part of the robot?
Compression - tension
Wind tunnel testing
Brain
Triangular shapes
33. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Deck
Gears
Physical characteristics and work envelope
ENIAC
34. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Hung
Invention
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Appearance model
35. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Piers
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Hung
The number of pulley wheels
36. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Compression at the bottom
The problem solving process
Send out a light signal
37. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Cable- stayed
It didn't always point at the North Star
Lasers
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
38. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
How far it can reach
Brainstorming
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Invisible
39. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Papyrus
3000 feet
First- class levers
Block and tackle
40. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind
The cable- stayed bridge
Any place on the arch
Suspension
Arch
41. For a tower to be built higher - the walls can be...
Axes
Battered
Screw
Brainstorming
42. Operating parameters are the abilities and limitations of robots that determine their design and tasks. Which of the following is not a robotics operating parameter?
Kinetic energy
Axes
Pulling
Elasticity
43. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
Microcomputer
Ends
Critical load/weight of the structure
The wheel and axle
44. The five types of stress are...
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Battered
Compression - tension
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
45. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
Guard rails
Read only memory
Cantilever
New jobs
46. The development of something completely new
Heavy
Invention
Effort
Rankine and Kelvin
47. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Hard automation and soft automation
the permanent loads on a structure
Gears
Width of the beam
48. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
How far it can reach
Fire extinguisher
Send out a light signal
Suspension
49. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
the permanent loads on a structure
Triangular shapes
Byte
Grippers
50. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?
Yaw
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
ENIAC
Energy