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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. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Keystone
Brain
A waist twisting
Specifications
2. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum - used to overcome a resistance or to raise a weight when force is applied is a
Compression at the bottom
The structure will be lighter
lever
Width of the beam
3. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Effort
Gravity - weight - load
Aqueducts
Soft clay tablets
4. The five types of stress are...
Compression - tension
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
add a diagonal member
Design brief
5. The difficulties we must overcome
Bascule
A rock used to test metal for quality
Deck
Problems
6. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Weight of the roof...
Heavy
Plow
Location of the trustline
7. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Second- class lever
Overflows of the Nile
Extend and retract
Irrigation
8. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
First- class levers
Plow
Hung
Microprocessor
9. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
Interstate highway system
Design loop
XYZ
Suspension
10. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Stone - concrete - or steel
Hard automation
Irrigation systems
Keystone
11. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Yaw
Stress
Triangular lateen sail
Gears
12. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Fixed pulley
Shear
How far it can reach
Overflows of the Nile
13. When generating ideas for a solution to a problem - it is important to do which of the following in order to effectively and visually communicate these ideas for use in construction drawings?
Elasticity
James Watt
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
14. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?
William Gilbert
Design loop
Clock
Solve problems
15. An optoelectronic emitter is used to do what/
Send out a light signal
Technology
Any place on the arch
Rack and pinion gears
16. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
A rock used to test metal for quality
Wind tunnel testing
Design loop
Program
17. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Effort
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Friction
18. The weight or resistance on a lever
Neutral axis...
Load
Arch
Up and down
19. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Spur gears
Sliding
W = F x d
Gears
20. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Triangular shapes
The structure will be lighter
Design brief
James Watt
21. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Cable- stayed
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Irrigation
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
22. The metric unit for measuring work
Main - frame computer
Triangular shapes
Up
Newton - meter
23. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Lasers
Sensing systems
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Cable- stayed
24. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Block and tackle
Gravity - weight - load
Up and down
25. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Compression
Sliding
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Nylon
26. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
High technology robots
Prototypes
Rack and pinion gears
Hard automation
27. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Technology
Arch
Imaginary
High tech robots
28. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Brainstorming
Unstable
Compression at the bottom
Pushing
29. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Optoelectronic sensor
Triangular lateen sail
Guard rails
The calendar
30. What is binary?
Arch
Ends
ROM
Computer language
31. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Random access memory
Piers
Design loop
Work
32. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Work
Overflows of the Nile
Effort
Functional models
33. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
It didn't always point at the North Star
Microprocessor
Is able to learn
Sensing systems
34. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
Kinetic energy
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Block and tackle
Elasticity
35. 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
Cantilever
Block and tackle
Functional models
Width of the beam
36. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Microprocessor
Balanced
How much a material has changed its shape
Read only memory
37. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Bascule
Ultrasonic sensor
Any place on the arch
Second- class lever
38. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Effort
Ultrasonic sensor
Bimetallic sensor
Pushing
39. Force times distance
Optoelectronic sensor
Work
Gears
Hard automation
40. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Bell Laboratories
Solve problems
Gears
Most of the material is located where it is needed
41. Torsion is best described as...
First- class lever
Pulley
Twisting
Design brief
42. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Power
Axes
Pushing
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
43. Compression is best described as...
Following white lines on the floor
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Pushing
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
44. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
A library
Following white lines on the floor
Design loop
Operator of a battering ram
45. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
Taller
Design brief
Memory addresses
Two story building
46. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Science
Equilibrium
Compression
Neutral axis...
47. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Deck
Compression - tension
Grippers
Science
48. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Appearance model
Triangular shapes
Deck
Collapse or break
49. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Microcomputer
Solve problems
Cloud chamber
Actuators
50. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Pushing
Second- class lever
The deck arch
Worm gears