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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Generate many alternative solutions
Invisible
Bending moment or lever arm
Input/Output devices
2. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
Design loop
Optoelectronic sensor
Microprocessor
Hard automation and soft automation
3. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Soft clay tablets
Structural failure
Chain hoist
Kinetic energy
4. The ability to do work
Equilibrium
Energy
Irrigation
Bevel gears
5. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
New jobs
Operator of a battering ram
Ergonomics
Tower
6. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
Microcomputer
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Random access memory
Tower
7. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Up
Sensing systems
Mechanical advantage
8. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
add a diagonal member
Science
Tension structures weigh less
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
9. Stress can be lowered by
increasing the area over which the force acts
Bus
Deck
A library
10. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Most famous
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Movable pulley
Elasticity
11. A pulley that makes work easier
Movable pulley
Shear
Prototypes
Imaginary
12. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
ROM
Bending and shearing
The calendar
Heavy
13. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
Low technology robots
Trial and error
Technology
A library
14. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Invention
Cable- stayed
Nylon
Beam bridge
15. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Read only memory
Chemical reactions
Cable- stayed
16. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Nylon
Pushing
Screw
Bell Laboratories
17. Tension is best described as...
Actuators
Pulling
Brainstorming
Most of the material is located where it is needed
18. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Interstate highway system
Up and down
Work
Galileo
19. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
A cantilever bridge
Medium technology robot
Cantilever
Design brief
20. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Foot- pounds
Bimetallic sensor
256
Functional models
21. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
Specifications
Flexible
Most famous
Trial and error
22. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Laser rod
256
Brainstorming
Problems
23. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Galileo
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Tension structures weigh less
Bell Laboratories
24. The three types of arches are...
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Stone - concrete - or steel
Work
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
25. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Solutions
Strong anchorages
Beam bridge
Span
26. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Gears
Functional models
Specifications
Unstable
27. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Tie
Irrigation
Is able to learn
Main - frame computer
28. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Guard rails
Chain hoist
256
Program
29. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Gears
Axes
A rock used to test metal for quality
Width of the beam
30. The scientific formula for work is...
Hard automation and soft automation
Lever
W = F x d
Foot- pounds
31. 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
Block and tackle
Its depth
Arch
Arch
32. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Horizontal braces
William Gilbert
Foot- pounds
Byte
33. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Truss
Measurement - evaluation - and control
First- class levers
Design brief
34. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Tower
Byte
Mechanical advantage
Compression
35. The dead load of a structure is
Appearance model
the permanent loads on a structure
Hard automation
Foot- pounds
36. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Deck
Neutral axis...
Structural failure
37. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Location of the trustline
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Is able to learn
Kinetic energy
38. 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
Pulling
lever
Gears
the permanent loads on a structure
39. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Bridge failure
Ultrasonic sensor
Ramp
Following white lines on the floor
40. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Science
Resistance
Bus
Any place on the arch
41. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?
Byte
Overflows of the Nile
Up and down
Random access memory
42. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Neutral axis...
Romans
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Heavy
43. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
W = F x d
Medium technology robot
True
Block and tackle
44. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Cable- stayed
Gears
Bus
Microcomputer
45. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Solutions
3000 feet
Third- class lever
Silicon
46. Work divided by time
Main - frame computer
Bending moment or lever arm
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
Power
47. What are computer chips made from?
Stress
Design loop
A small degree of flexibility
Silicon
48. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Beam
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Balanced
Beam bridge
49. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
Effort
Science
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Cable- stayed
50. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Work
Invention
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Overflows of the Nile