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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. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Block and tackle
Beam bridge
Solutions
Design brief
2. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Manipulator
Beam
Hard automation and soft automation
Guard rails
3. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Screw
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Bending moment or lever arm
4. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Its depth
Wind tunnel testing
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
5. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Send out a light signal
Time and angles
Following white lines on the floor
Tension structures weigh less
6. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
How far it can reach
Invisible
Piers
Chemistry
7. The controller is what part of the robot?
Brain
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
James Watt
Hung
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
A rock used to test metal for quality
Innovation
the permanent loads on a structure
Bascule
9. What is a touchstone?
Cloud chamber
A rock used to test metal for quality
Piers
Collapse or break
10. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Bevel gears
Lasers
High technology robots
Cable- stayed
11. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
The cable- stayed bridge
Deck
Romans
Papyrus
12. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Spur gears
Unstable
Microcomputer
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
13. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Work
Bending moment or lever arm
Shape
Send out a light signal
14. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Invention
Battered
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Gravity - weight - load
15. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Bridge failure
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Cable- stayed
Beam
16. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
Memory addresses
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Pulley
Appearance model
17. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Twisting
Overflows of the Nile
Up
18. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on
Second- class lever
High tech robots
Gears
Soft clay tablets
19. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Second- class lever
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
20. The three types of arches are...
The deck arch
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Guard rails
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
21. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Design
1 or 0
Unstable
Gears
22. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Work
Aqueducts
Beam
Gripper
23. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Strong anchorages
Chemical reactions
Most famous
Neutral axis...
24. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Manipulator
Cantilever
Flexible
Chain hoist
25. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
W = F x d
Mechanical advantage
Shape
Irrigation
26. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Mechanical advantage
Gears
Compression at the bottom
Optoelectronic sensor
27. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Instruction set
Bit
Send out a light signal
Hard automation
28. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?
Axes
the permanent loads on a structure
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Kinetic energy
29. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
Rankine and Kelvin
Newton - meter
Chain hoist
The wheel and axle
30. Shear is best described as...
ENIAC
Sliding
Stress
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
31. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Rack and pinion gears
Axes
Work
32. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Ergonomics
Grippers
James Watt
Send out a light signal
33. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Brainstorming
William Gilbert
Hung
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
34. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Width of the beam
increasing the area over which the force acts
Design brief
The problem solving process
35. The dead load of a structure is
the permanent loads on a structure
lever
Optoelectronic sensor
Design loop
36. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
Up and down
Strong anchorages
Temperature changes
256
37. The five types of stress are...
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Spur gears
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Interstate highway system
38. A force that opposes motion
Microprocessor
Yaw
Up and down
Friction
39. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Second- class lever
Keystone
Main - frame computer
Ultrasonic sensor
40. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Manipulator
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Microprocessor
Bridge failure
41. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Overflows of the Nile
Critical load/weight of the structure
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Hard automation
42. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
Beam
Read only memory
Horizontal braces
Interstate highway system
43. The three basic types of bridges are...
William Gilbert
Resistance
Beam - arch - and suspension
Width of the beam
44. Strain is a measure of...
How much a material has changed its shape
Irrigation
Ergonomics
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
45. The force applied to a lever
Effort
It didn't always point at the North Star
True
Cable- stayed
46. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Manipulator
Resistive sensor
Plow
Piers
47. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Byte
Instruction set
Equilibrium
Block and tackle
48. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Low technology robots
Plow
Truss
Ultrasonic sensor
49. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load
Input/Output devices
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
First- class lever
Friction
50. The planned process of change
High technology robots
Two story building
ROM
Design