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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. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Mechanical advantage
Galileo
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Pulling
2. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Piers
The lack of pressure to continue development
Invisible
Temperature changes
3. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Design loop
Irrigation
Solutions
Third- class lever
4. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Sliding
Medium technology robot
Galileo
Design loop
5. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?
Yaw
Friction
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Compression at the bottom
6. 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?
Manipulator
Compression - tension
Sliding
Axes
7. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
First- class levers
Microprocessor
3000 feet
It didn't always point at the North Star
8. Provides problem clarification and specification
Suspension
Design brief
Shape
Balanced
9. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
Truss
Unstable
Specifications
Compression at the bottom
10. Which of the following are two advantages of using robotics technology?
Operator of a battering ram
Kinetic energy
3000 feet
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
11. The difficulties we must overcome
Romans
Horsepower
Problems
Soft clay tablets
12. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Galileo
Steel reinforced concrete
Neutral axis...
13. The generation of ideas for solutions
Potential energy
Triangular shapes
Suspension
Brainstorming
14. Strain is a measure of...
Chemical reactions
Optoelectronic sensor
Problems
How much a material has changed its shape
15. Distance between the piers
Low technology robots
Bit
Span
Romans
16. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Energy
Clock
Invention
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
17. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Worm gears
Work
How much a material has changed its shape
Microprocessor
18. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Functional models
Irrigation systems
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
First- class lever
19. The weight of the obect being moved
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Resistance
Its depth
3000 feet
20. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Strong anchorages
Brainstorming
Nylon
Is able to learn
21. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Solutions
Load
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Romans
22. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Beam
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Truss
Spur gears
23. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Sensing systems
Rack and pinion gears
Cloud chamber
Stone - concrete - or steel
24. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
Arch
Gravity - weight - load
Trial and error
Neil Armstrong
25. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
ROM
Bevel gears
Shear
Grippers
26. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Design loop
Gears
Gears
Span
27. What is a touchstone?
Any place on the arch
A rock used to test metal for quality
High tech robots
Pulley
28. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
Design brief
The number of pulley wheels
The wheel and axle
Cable- stayed
29. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Manipulator
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Low technology robots
Ergonomics
30. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
How far it can reach
Cable- stayed
Optoelectronic sensor
31. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Axes
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Lasers
Gears
32. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Unstable
A rock used to test metal for quality
Specifications
33. The scientific formula for work is...
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Ergonomics
Fire extinguisher
W = F x d
34. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Read only memory
Appearance model
Compression
It didn't always point at the North Star
35. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
How far it can reach
Kinetic energy
Specifications
Compression
36. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
High tech robots
Stone - concrete - or steel
Program
1 or 0
37. The three basic types of bridges are...
Beam - arch - and suspension
Triangular lateen sail
James Watt
Abutments
38. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Extend and retract
Strong anchorages
Rankine and Kelvin
39. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Gripper
Spur gears
Second- class lever
Design loop
40. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Compression - tension
Collapse or break
Science
Technology
41. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
The bowstring girder
Invention
Design
Is able to learn
42. I am a new bridge design that includes elements from a cantilever and a suspension bridge. I am easier to build than either of those but I am limited to spanning shorter distances
Bimetallic sensor
Cable- stayed
Innovations
Energy
43. Torsion is best described as...
Design loop
Twisting
Block and tackle
Work
44. The development of something completely new
Interstate highway system
Power
Invention
Wind tunnel testing
45. A fixed wheel with a rope or chain that is attached to a load - used to change the direction of a force or to lift heavy objects - is a
Twisting
Input/Output devices
Pulley
High tech robots
46. Compression is best described as...
Pushing
Arch
Bending moment or lever arm
How much a material has changed its shape
47. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Optoelectronic sensor
Yaw
Beam
Elasticity
48. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Bridge failure
Two story building
Read only memory
Brainstorming
49. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Steam engines
Lever
Cable- stayed
Random access memory
50. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
Lever
Second- class lever
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
The wheel and axle