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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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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. Work divided by time
Power
Axes
Bit
Optoelectronic sensor
2. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
Abutments
Invisible
How far it can reach
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
3. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Width of the beam
Plow
Pushing
Specifications
4. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Design brief
Functional models
Innovation
Overflows of the Nile
5. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Steel reinforced concrete
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Lasers
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
6. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Pulling
increasing the area over which the force acts
Aqueducts
Galileo
7. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Compression at the bottom
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
The bowstring girder
Romans
8. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Potential energy
Effort
Laser rod
The calendar
9. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Resistive sensor
Tension structures weigh less
Span
Science
10. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Tower
Steam engines
Gears
Worm gears
11. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
The cable- stayed bridge
Program
Clock
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
12. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Design loop
Any place on the arch
Pulling
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
13. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
the permanent loads on a structure
Interstate highway system
Beam bridge
Ergonomics
14. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Specifications
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Effort
Potential energy
15. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Grippers
Instruction set
First- class levers
16. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Steel reinforced concrete
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Rack and pinion gears
Solutions
17. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
A rock used to test metal for quality
Two story building
Beam - arch - and suspension
Ergonomics
18. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
The problem solving process
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Bell Laboratories
Chain hoist
19. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
Bascule
Unstable
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Manipulator
20. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
A waist twisting
Chain hoist
Interstate highway system
21. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Beam
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Invention
Triangular shapes
22. Shear is best described as...
Irrigation systems
Gravity - weight - load
256
Sliding
23. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
Grippers
Cantilever
Flexible
The wheel and axle
24. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
William Gilbert
Triangular lateen sail
Brain
Bridge failure
25. The weight or resistance on a lever
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Sliding
Load
Bell Laboratories
26. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
256
Microcomputer
Compression at the bottom
27. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Solutions
Fulcrum
Wind tunnel testing
Bascule
28. My name means 'seesaw' in French and the English dictionary describes me as a level -- something that is counterbalanced - so that when one end is lowered - the other is raised
Pulling
Gears
Bascule
William Gilbert
29. The generation of ideas for solutions
Stone - concrete - or steel
Low technology robots
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Brainstorming
30. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Optoelectronic sensor
Bimetallic sensor
Span
Tip over
31. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
Foot- pounds
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Trial and error
Optoelectronic sensor
32. An optoelectronic emitter is used to do what/
High technology robots
Optoelectronic sensor
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Send out a light signal
33. 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
Horizontal braces
High technology robots
lever
Screw
34. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
Size - shape - and type of material
Beam
How much a material has changed its shape
A library
35. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
Collapse or break
Innovation
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
The deck arch
36. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges
Compression
Design
W = F x d
Problems
37. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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38. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Solve problems
Clock
Power
ROM
39. Compression is best described as...
Microprocessor
Pushing
Irrigation
Pulley
40. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Nylon
Width of the beam
The structure will be lighter
The problem solving process
41. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Fire extinguisher
Manipulator
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Elasticity
42. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Time and angles
Most of the material is located where it is needed
How much a material has changed its shape
Sliding
43. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Piers
William Gilbert
Block and tackle
Optoelectronic sensor
44. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Optoelectronic sensor
Generate many alternative solutions
Elasticity
Strong anchorages
45. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Resistance
Tension structures weigh less
Compression - tension
Random access memory
46. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Computer language
Guard rails
Twisting
47. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
A rock used to test metal for quality
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Bascule
Gears
48. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Byte
Optoelectronic sensor
Design loop
Microprocessor
49. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Innovations
New jobs
High tech robots
50. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Design loop
Bimetallic sensor
Program
Cable- stayed