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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support






2. What are I/O devices?






3. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would






4. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...






5. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:






6. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:






7. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the






8. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced






9. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?






10. 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






11. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?

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12. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?






13. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge






14. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?






15. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?






16. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?






17. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?






18. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?






19. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?






20. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of






21. Distance between the piers






22. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?






23. Builders made the original versions of me out of wedge- shaped stones that fit snugly together. They were held in place with the pressure of the weight of the bridge






24. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:






25. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to






26. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called






27. The three types of equilibrium are:






28. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?






29. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?






30. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?






31. Provides a structure for thinking and doing






32. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?






33. The five types of stress are...






34. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...






35. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.






36. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.






37. The metric unit for measuring work






38. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...






39. The efficiency rating of a structure is...






40. Compression is best described as...






41. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge






42. 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






43. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end






44. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?






45. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?






46. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...






47. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?






48. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?






49. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?






50. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?