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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. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Chemical reactions
Bell Laboratories
Newton - meter
2. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
A rock used to test metal for quality
Galileo
A cantilever bridge
The growth of Christianity
3. Provides problem clarification and specification
Design brief
Load
Shear
Cantilever
4. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Bevel gears
Laser rod
Effort
Second- class lever
5. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Fixed pulley
Is able to learn
6. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
Size - shape - and type of material
Bus
Is able to learn
Technology
7. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
The bowstring girder
Following white lines on the floor
Operator of a battering ram
Lever
8. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Keystone
Law of Conservation of Energy
Cable- stayed
Ultrasonic sensor
9. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers
Cable- stayed
Microcomputer
Pulling
Unstable
10. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Strong anchorages
Effort
The cable- stayed bridge
XYZ
11. The difficulties we must overcome
Problems
Aqueducts
Design brief
Tip over
12. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Hard automation
The bowstring girder
Interstate highway system
13. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Design brief
Unstable
XYZ
Critical load/weight of the structure
14. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Flexible
Temperature changes
Tension structures weigh less
Appearance model
15. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
How much a material has changed its shape
Weight of the roof...
A waist twisting
Power
16. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
How much a material has changed its shape
Cantilever
Medium technology robot
Optoelectronic sensor
17. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Design brief
Plow
Cloud chamber
Irrigation systems
18. What are I/O devices?
Beam bridge
Appearance model
Input/Output devices
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
19. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Up and down
Aqueducts
1 or 0
Extend and retract
20. A force that opposes motion
Newton - meter
First- class levers
Friction
Taller
21. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Newton - meter
Structural failure
The number of pulley wheels
Size - shape - and type of material
22. What are computer chips made from?
Read only memory
Silicon
the permanent loads on a structure
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
23. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?
Cantilever
Up and down
Chain hoist
Ultrasonic sensor
24. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Chemical reactions
Ends
Balanced
Nylon
25. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Specifications
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
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
Location of the trustline
26. The English unit of measuring work
The problem solving process
Foot- pounds
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Keystone
27. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Technology
Balanced
Lever
28. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Input/Output devices
Gripper
Wind tunnel testing
Lasers
29. The lesson used an illustration of a robot filling boxes. The sensors detected if the box had moved. What kind of sensor was used?
Extend and retract
Hung
lever
Optoelectronic sensor
30. The three basic types of bridges are...
Strong anchorages
Actuators
James Watt
Beam - arch - and suspension
31. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Program
Manipulator
3000 feet
32. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Axes
Design loop
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Axes
33. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Compression at the bottom
Papyrus
Romans
Second- class lever
34. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Shape
Prototypes
Main - frame computer
James Watt
35. The most important factor in determining the strength of a beam is...
Elasticity
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Keystone
Its depth
36. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
The lack of pressure to continue development
Lasers
Byte
37. The force (push or pull) used to do work
Galileo
Effort
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
A waist twisting
38. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
Most famous
The number of pulley wheels
Tip over
Generate many alternative solutions
39. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Load
Science
How far it can reach
High technology robots
40. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Triangular shapes
Tower
Bimetallic sensor
It didn't always point at the North Star
41. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Mechanical advantage
Shape
Rack and pinion gears
Bimetallic sensor
42. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
The deck arch
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Cable- stayed
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
43. 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
Guard rails
Axes
Block and tackle
The calendar
44. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Overflows of the Nile
A small degree of flexibility
Input/Output devices
Two story building
45. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
Bending moment or lever arm
The cable- stayed bridge
Movable pulley
Balanced
46. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Bevel gears
Functional models
Ends
Compression - tension
47. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Gripper
Protect other people working around them
Unstable
It didn't always point at the North Star
48. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Bell Laboratories
Steam engines
Ergonomics
Romans
49. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Actuators
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Unstable
Plow
50. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Bending moment or lever arm
How much a material has changed its shape
Width of the beam