EDD 111 Final Review

Which network diagram type focuses on activities of a fixed duration (Deterministic)?

CPM (Critical Path Method)

deterministic - it's (D)efinitely (critical) you remember this

Which network diagram type focuses on activities that have variability in their durations (Probabilistic)?

PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique)

probablistic - it's PERTinent you remember this

What does a Gantt chart show?

Shows activities of bars and predecessor relationships?

Work scope consists of

Schedule, cost, and performance

SCoPe - (S)chedule (C)ost (P)erformance

True or False: The critical path method does not assume activity path durations are fixed

False

The six useful project management skills are

Team Building, Organizational, Communication, Technical Skills, Leadership, Coping

What is the phase after the feasibility study?

The conceptual phase

Who developed the Program Review and Evaluation Technique?

The U.S. Navy

Gantt charts, like the ones we used in class, can be made in...

Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010

True or False: All tasks in a Gantt chart must have a predecessor

False

True or False: A task can have only one predecessor

False

True or False: Every task must have a duration greater than zero (0)

False, Milestones have a duration of zero

True or False: Every task in a Gantt chart has start and finish dates

True

True or False: Voltage is a kind of measure of energy

True

What are three things a multimeter can measure?

Voltage, Current, Resistance

Complete the Following analogies:

Pressure ~ ____________

Flow Rate ~ __________

Friction ~ _____________

Power ~ _______________

Pressure ~ Voltage

Flow Rate ~ Current

Friction ~ Resistance

Power ~ Power

What are the units for:

Voltage?

Current?

Resistance?

Power?

Voltage = V = Volt

Current = A = Ampere

Resistance = Ohm

Power = W = Joules/s

A block diagram is a

A high-level design using blocks to show the relationships between functions/elements

A circuit diagram includes

Symbols for each component

A layout diagram shows

The breadboard with physical components

What does Kirchoff's Current Law (KCL) state?

The sum of all currents entering or exiting a node is equal to zero

What does Kirchoff's Voltage Law (KVL) state?

The sum of potential differences around a (closed) loop is zero

What does combining resistors in series result in?

A resistance larger than any of the individual resistors

What does combining resistors in parallel result in?

A resistance smaller than any of the individual resistors

What is resistance the measure of?

The opposition to the passage of an electric current through an object

What does IDE stand for?

Integrated Development Environment

What does USB stand for?

Universal Serial Bus

How many LED's are on the Arduino Uno?

Four - Power, Rx, Tx, Pin 13

(powering my 13th TeXas t-ReX)

How many different input power connectors are there on the Arduino Uno?

Three - Power input pins, USB Connector and 9V Battery Connector

Is there a chip on the Uno Board that creates 3.3V directly from the Uno Input Voltage?

There is no chip that converts Arduino voltage

What does FET stand for?

Field Effect Transistor

How many bits are in a byte?

8 bits

an (8 bit game)

Which logic gate does not have two inputs?

The NOT Gate

What are the three legs of a BJT (Bipolar Junction Transitor)

Collector, Base and Emitter

What are the five types of diodes we covered in class?

Small Signal, Light Emitting, Solar Cell, Rectifying Diode, Photo Diode

(a small signal was emitted from the solar system which wrecked my photo) idk I'm grasping at straws here

What command allows additional code to be added to the Arduino?

#include

What happens if the recommended Arduino input voltage is exceeded?

The board may not function correctly and/or may be damaged

What language is the Arduino IDE based on?

C/C++

When driving external Arduino components you need to make sure...

you do not sink or source too much current from the Arduino Microprocessor

What is the maximum current for any single I/O pin on the Arduino Board>

40mA

What does DeMorgans law state?

(A . B) = (A) + (B)

What is the ideal operational amplifier (Op Amp) resistance:

Zero output resistance and infinite input resistance

What is the gain of a Voltage Follower Op Amp?

One

there can be only one Original Poster on insta/Twitter/whatever

Form leads to function by means of

Analysis

(Kowalski analysis meme)

Function leads to form by means of

Design

A Bill of Materials should include?

Part Name, part Number, Custom or Standard, Quantity, Part Material

What does reverse engineering combine the process of?

Engineering Design and Engineering Analysis

(you take it apart AND put it back together)

What design style is the process that allows for the easy recovery of parts and materials when a product is disassembled or renovated?

Design for Disassembly

Why is reverse engineering done?

-To redesign a product for easier recycling

-Because product documentation has been lost

-To design unlicensed or unapproved duplicates

-To perform a security audit

-Simply to find out how a product works

What are the three main types of lines?

Dimension, Extension and Leader

I'd pay my project (Leader) a (Dime And My Son) for an (Extension) on this project

What are the three types of Drawing dimensions?

Linear Distance, Angles and Notes

What is not a CAD software?

P-Spice

What are the four engineering design process steps?

1) Formulation, 2) Generating Alternatives, 3) Evaluating them, 4) Redesigning

What are the five steps of structured design?

1) Formulation, 2) Conceptual Design, 3) Configuration Design, 4) Parametric Design, 5) Detail Design

What is the engineering design process?

A set of design making processes that attempts to determine the form of an object (or process) given a customers desired function

In Pugh's method, what must the Weighting Factors add to

N/A, Pugh's method doesn't have weighting factors

In Pahl and Beitz method, the product of weighting factor (W) and numerical value (NV#) gives

The Weighting Factor

What is the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam?

The first of two exams you need to take to become a professional engineer

In NYS what is the minimum years experience do you need to become a professional engineer, if you only have an undergraduate degree

Five

True or False: You must graduate from an ABET accredited Engineering Program before you can take the fundamentals of Engineering Exam?

False

True or False: Only specific calculators are able to be used on the professional engineering exams

True

True or False: You may bring a copy of the FE supplied handbook with you to the fundamentals of engineering (FE) exam

False

Who is known for his role in creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010.

Craig Venter

(Craig Venter inVENTERed the first synthetic human genome) maybe you'll remember my terrible puns and that'll help you pass

He receives a patent for a plastic contact lens designed to cover only the eye's cornea, a

major change from earlier designs. In what year did he receive his patent?

Kevin Touchy in 1948

The contact lens doesn't touchy the sides of the eyeball. Also the 8 also looks like a lil pair of eyes idk how to remember the rest if it

Who successfully treated a dying patient in his native Holland with an "artificial kidney," the first

kidney dialysis machine?

Williem J. Kloff

(I wonder if the dying patient had a bad Kloff and if Williem just wilied 'em to get better)

He is known as the father of genetic algorithms and is a pioneer in complex systems and nonlinear science

John Holland

(maybe he's in the Holl of fame)

This professor of experimental surgery at Georgetown University, develops a

prosthetic heart valve and implants it in a human patient the following year.

Charles Hufnagel in 1951

(hopefully HIS carsiovasuclar health was good enough that he didn't HUFF too hard or FINAGLE a motor scooter to get around)

Which Dutch physician and physiologist develops the first Electrocardiograph?

Willem Einthoven in 1903

After perfecting his technique on a cow's eye New York City this ophthalmologist performs the first laser eye surgery on a cornea?

Steven Trokel in 1987

He developed the first cardiac pacemaker in this year?

Paul M. Zoll in 1952

Commercial MRI's (magnetic resonance imaging) were introduced in?

1981

(if you think of 19 as the M and 8 as the R and 1 as the I it kinda works?)

Who developed the first practical medical ventilator?

Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw in 1927

(ventilator? does that mean they weren't DRINKING water and AGASSpin for breath?)

What year was the Gantt chart introduced?

1910-1915

The first power loom, a mechanized loom powered by a line shaft, was designed by?

Edmund Cartwright in 1784

(You put your loom in your cart, (w)right?)

Who was one of the first engineers to see management as a new social role for engineers and that the development of management techniques was important for the development of the engineering profession?

Henry R. Towne

(Town(e)s R. social, Henry!)

Conveyor-belt assembly for automobile production begins. It includes continuous-feed plate glass and high-speed metalwork. What year was this?

1908

(19 is half a car with one wheel and 08 is a whole car with both wheels)

Who taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales in Japan and in what years?

W. Edwards Deming, 1950's

(Ed was never conDEMING Japan after WWII and he tested his sales there)

Who was an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of motion study, but is perhaps best known as the father and central figure in the book Cheaper by the Dozen?

Frank Gilbreth

(Motion Study > Just keep swimming > Frankly fish have gill-breath)

Who invented Pyrex and when?

Carl Zeiss, 1884

(Zeiss rhymes with ice which looks like pyrex)

What company improved Pyrex in 1916?

Corning

The coining of the term 'ergonomics' (or human factors) is widely attributed to a British psychologist. Who is he and when did he introduce this term?

Hywel Murrell, 1949

Through-hole technology is introduced in the electronics industry in what year?

1961

(you can connect a line from the top of 1, through the holes of 9 and 6 and get to the bottom of 1)

Who patented FM radio in 1933?

Edwin H. Armstrong

(Edwin Armstrong is a (F)irm (M)an who has Strong Arms)

Who invented the amplitude-modulated (AM) radio?

Reginald Fessenden and Lee de Forest in 1906

(AM radio reaches a larger Reginald, Lee-ping de Forest -

"AM Radio reaches a larger region (than FM), leaping the forest")

In 1936 the first commercial HVDC (high voltage direct current) line using Mercury arc valves was

built between

Schenectady and Mechanicville, NY

In what year was Color television demonstrated by Bell Laboratories using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full color image?

1929

(They could watch the stock market crash - in color!)

In 1963 the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers merge to form

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

On July 8, 1969 Intel is founded by

Robert Noyce, Andy Grove, & Gordon Moore

(Rob! Noyce job, and(y) Groovy move, Grove. Moore congrats to Gordon!)

The consolidation of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and the Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady in 1895 created the?

General Electric Company

In the 1890's Thomas Edison failed in his attempts to have a procedure named "Westinghousing".

What was this procedure?

Execution by means of AC voltage

Who published an article in the journal Mind that establishes criteria for artificial intelligence.

Alan Turing in 1950

What was the name of the first radio communications satellite was launched in 1962.

Telstar

I guess we were ready to TELl the STARs our morning news?

Who invented the compression-ignition engine, an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber during the final stage of compression?

Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf the Diesel Engine, had to go and burn some fuel

In 1854 this person invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting

cable broke?

Elisha Otis

(When the elevator drops - Bye FELLisha, O-tis is bad)

Who was the engineer who, during his time with Columbia records, was instrumental in developing

the long-playing (LP) microgroove 33-1/3 rpm vinyl phonograph disc, the standard for incorporating

multiple or lengthy recorded works on a single disc for two generations?

Peter Carl Goldmark

(I wonder if he got a gold record in a (P)a(C)ka(G)e for this?)

Who was Sadi Carnot?

A French physicist and military engineer who, in his 1824, gave the first successful theoretical

account of heat engines, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics.

(SADIly we CARNOT about thermodynamics)

Who was the first woman member elected to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1924?

Verena Holmes

Who developed the bombe an electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decrypt German Enigma-machine-encrypted signals during World War II?

Alan Turing

(Watch the Imitation Game with Bennybuns Cumbersnatch)

Who is Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell

He tested his theories on hovercraft design using a hair-dryer and tin cans and found his working hypothesis to have potential. He began his work on hovercrafts in 1953

Where did the world's first nuclear power station open?

Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia in 1954