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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. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Design loop
Read only memory
Fulcrum
Design brief
2. The difficulties we must overcome
Abutments
The structure will be lighter
Problems
Is able to learn
3. Which of the following are two advantages of using robotics technology?
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Steel reinforced concrete
Main - frame computer
Microcomputer
4. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Science
Chemistry
Up and down
Wheel and axle
5. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Bus
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
Prototypes
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
6. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
Beam
Imaginary
Span
Shape
7. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
A library
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Arch
Operator of a battering ram
8. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
Beam bridge
Instruction set
Trial and error
The cable- stayed bridge
9. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Work
Width of the beam
Kinetic energy
The deck arch
10. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
Instruction set
Hard automation
The structure will be lighter
A rock used to test metal for quality
11. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Wind tunnel testing
A waist twisting
Nylon
Truss
12. What are I/O devices?
Newton - meter
Structural failure
Input/Output devices
Yaw
13. Provides problem clarification and specification
Design brief
Overflows of the Nile
Structural failure
Third- class lever
14. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
The calendar
Elasticity
Ultrasonic sensor
Trial and error
15. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
Is able to learn
Silicon
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
16. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
First- class lever
256
Foot- pounds
Axes
17. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Input/Output devices
Two story building
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Bend and rotation
18. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Instruction set
Newton - meter
Stone - concrete - or steel
A cantilever bridge
19. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Shear
Steam engines
Beam
Balanced
20. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Third- class lever
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Overflows of the Nile
Friction
21. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Main - frame computer
Low technology robots
Keystone
1 or 0
22. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Wind tunnel testing
Random access memory
Bending and shearing
Plow
23. A force that opposes motion
Foot- pounds
Functional models
Energy
Friction
24. The probblem with very large compression structures is that they are...
True
Tower
Brain
Heavy
25. The turning point of a lever
Ramp
Optoelectronic sensor
Fulcrum
Newton - meter
26. The ability to do work
Microprocessor
Stress
Energy
Plow
27. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
Bending moment or lever arm
Irrigation
Deck
Bend and rotation
28. Strain is a measure of...
Hung
How much a material has changed its shape
Extend and retract
Taller
29. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Triangular shapes
Span
Movable pulley
Tie
30. The metric unit for measuring work
Newton - meter
Guard rails
Design
Cantilever
31. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Block and tackle
lever
First- class levers
32. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Stress
Temperature changes
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Shear
33. Compression is best described as...
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Pushing
Shear
Heavy
34. Energy of position
Potential energy
Aqueducts
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
A library
35. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
Is able to learn
Size - shape - and type of material
Irrigation
Lasers
36. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Stress
Laser rod
Invention
37. 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
lever
Horsepower
Law of Conservation of Energy
Design loop
38. The energy of motion
A rock used to test metal for quality
Kinetic energy
Specifications
William Gilbert
39. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Horizontal braces
Galileo
Its depth
Computer language
40. Two examples of me are the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. They both have decks that hang from cables made of hundreds of steel wires - just like me
A rock used to test metal for quality
Its depth
Pulley
Suspension
41. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Trial and error
Byte
Axes
Shape
42. The five types of stress are...
Gears
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
How far it can reach
Brainstorming
43. Which is not a true statement about gears?
Design loop
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
3000 feet
Equilibrium
44. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Tower
Keystone
Two story building
45. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Strong anchorages
Resistance
Prototypes
Optoelectronic sensor
46. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Guard rails
Stress
Unstable
Physical characteristics and work envelope
47. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Axes
Interstate highway system
Wheel and axle
Equilibrium
48. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Bending and shearing
Collapse or break
add a diagonal member
49. How can an ultrasonic sensor measure movement and distance?
Block and tackle
Energy
Arch
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
50. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Lever
Any place on the arch
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Collapse or break