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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? December 2020PEimpact KH2023-06-09T15:13:44-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

‘Tis the season for a good score on December’s engineering pop quiz!

Question 1: An anemometer is a device used for measuring _________.
- Wind speed
- Radiation levels
- Humidity
- RPMs of a rotating shaft

Question 2: Most current loops used for control systems in commercial and industrial applications operate at ________.
- A range of 5 to 50 amps
- A range of 100 to 500 milliamps
- A range of 4 to 20 milliamps
- 10 amps

Question 3: In steel design, LRFD stands for __________.
- Loads Required in Free-body Diagrams
- Load and Resistance Factor Design
- Loads Required for Design
- Live loads, Rain loads, Flood loads and Dead Loads

Question 4: Reactance is measured in ________.
- Volts
- Coulombs
- Farads
- Ohms

Question 5: The Six Sigma methodology was formalized in the mid-1980s at ____________.
- IBM
- Ford Motor Company
- Motorola
- Toyota

Question 6: When performing a NPSHa calculation, acceleration head of the pumped fluid can be significant if you are using a ________ type of pump.
- Piston
- Centrifugal
- Gear
- Screw

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