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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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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. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
The bowstring girder
Wind tunnel testing
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Ergonomics
2. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
Compression at the bottom
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
A small degree of flexibility
Ends
3. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Irrigation
Shape
Most famous
4. The turning point of a lever
Steel reinforced concrete
Fulcrum
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Wind tunnel testing
5. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Bridge failure
Gripper
A rock used to test metal for quality
Elasticity
6. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Bascule
Grippers
Instruction set
7. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
the permanent loads on a structure
A library
Solve problems
Optoelectronic sensor
8. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Work
Pulley
Bending and shearing
9. The five types of stress are...
High tech robots
Lasers
Actuators
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
10. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Sensing systems
William Gilbert
Law of Conservation of Energy
The wheel and axle
11. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Is able to learn
Most of the material is located where it is needed
How far it can reach
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
12. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Bend and rotation
Balanced
Cantilever
13. What are computer chips made from?
Microcomputer
A waist twisting
Silicon
Cable- stayed
14. How can an ultrasonic sensor measure movement and distance?
Unstable
The cable- stayed bridge
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Gears
15. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Collapse or break
Bell Laboratories
Beam
16. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Bell Laboratories
High tech robots
New jobs
Neil Armstrong
17. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Plow
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Bus
Compression - tension
18. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Tension structures weigh less
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Plow
Chemistry
19. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Movable pulley
Suspension
Weight of the roof...
Location of the trustline
20. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Width of the beam
Specifications
Tension structures weigh less
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
21. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
Mechanical advantage
Two story building
The wheel and axle
Imaginary
22. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Friction
Optoelectronic sensor
Neil Armstrong
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
23. Provides problem clarification and specification
Battered
Design brief
William Gilbert
To do jobs that would be boring to people
24. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Temperature changes
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Silicon
Second- class lever
25. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Horizontal braces
Triangular shapes
Optoelectronic sensor
increasing the area over which the force acts
26. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Width of the beam
Location of the trustline
Soft clay tablets
Instruction set
27. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind
Lever
Suspension
ROM
Truss
28. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
The problem solving process
Extend and retract
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Keystone
29. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Problems
Law of Conservation of Energy
Protect other people working around them
Physical characteristics and work envelope
30. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
The bowstring girder
A cantilever bridge
Friction
Pulley
31. I am one of the oldest and simplest bridge designs. Today I can be quite a complex bridge - but like my ancestors - I support my own weight and the loads I have to bear - on vertical piers.
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Beam
the permanent loads on a structure
32. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Ergonomics
How much a material has changed its shape
Fire extinguisher
Extend and retract
33. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Optoelectronic sensor
Pulley
Effort
Science
34. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
XYZ
Manipulator
Optoelectronic sensor
Beam bridge
35. The energy of motion
Bascule
Byte
Kinetic energy
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
36. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Beam bridge
The wheel and axle
Load
Suspension
37. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
High technology robots
How far it can reach
Resistance
The growth of Christianity
38. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Design loop
Horizontal braces
Two story building
Time and angles
39. The three types of equilibrium are:
Mechanical advantage
Gears
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Bevel gears
40. What is the name of the robot's arm?
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Effort
Manipulator
Grippers
41. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Shape
The calendar
Two story building
Location of the trustline
42. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Bit
Main - frame computer
Design
Compression
43. The planned process of change
Brainstorming
Design
A cantilever bridge
Chain hoist
44. More than one pulley working together
Block and tackle
Nylon
Axes
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
45. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Send out a light signal
Brainstorming
Input/Output devices
Steel reinforced concrete
46. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
The growth of Christianity
True
Its depth
Work
47. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Interstate highway system
Extend and retract
Resistive sensor
Tower
48. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Hard automation
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
Microprocessor
Screw
49. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Generate many alternative solutions
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Heavy
Beam
50. Shear is best described as...
Pulling
Trial and error
Sliding
Ergonomics