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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Work divided by time






2. The five types of stress are...






3. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?






4. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called






5. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they






6. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?






7. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?






8. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge






9. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?






10. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would






11. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...






12. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of






13. Inclined section that connects land to beam






14. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?






15. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers






16. What is binary?






17. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...






18. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...






19. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...






20. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?






21. The ability to do work






22. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?






23. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?






24. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam






25. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?






26. The turning point of a lever






27. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?






28. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?






29. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?






30. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...






31. Distance between the piers






32. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it






33. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?






34. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge






35. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace






36. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)






37. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?






38. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck






39. What is a touchstone?






40. The difficulties we must overcome






41. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...






42. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?






43. The three types of equilibrium are:






44. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?






45. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective






46. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?






47. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?






48. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called






49. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by






50. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...