Aero Final

Which of the following is NOT a possible career path for Aerospace Engineers?

Academia Medicine Patent Examiner Automotive Industry

This maneuver uses drag from the atmosphere of a planet to slow an orbiting spacecraft.

Aerobraking

The first American to fly into space was:

Alan Shephard

The Space X corporation of Elon Musk named their cargo capsule:

Dragon

True or False: A vector can only have two components.

False

True or False: Advanced composite materials have many advantages over traditional materials and metals, but experience corrosion and fatigue in the same way.

False

True or False: For supersonic aircraft: the inlets are designed to ensure that flow entering the engine compressor enters at supersonic speeds.

False

True or False: The 4 major forces affecting an aircraft are Drag, Lift, Thrust, and Gravity.

False

True or False: Using many animations in presentation slides can help engage your audience and increases the quality of your presentation.

False

True or False: Winglets are a human developed concept not readily seen in nature.

False

A composite is formed with two materials: Matrix and _________.

Fiber

Match the axis with the appropriate aircraft rotation.

Flight, or X-axis Roll Wing, or Y-axis Pitch Vertical, or Z-axis Yaw

What trait has been increasing rapidly in engineering students over roughly the past 30 years?

Narcissism

The "Dream Chaser" Spacecraft, which completed a single landing test, is the commercial space project of:

Sierra Nevada

True or False: Social media can be a career breaker?

True

True or False: The efficiency of a propeller is maximum when the exit velocity is closest to the inflow velocity.

True

A design that produces the intended result, is robust, and generates the minimum amount of unintended consequences is described as an ___________ design.

elegant

A key component of a well performing team is

communication

An engineer's responsibilities:

Exceed those of non-professionals

Working groups are a/an ________________ to a team.

advantage

Which format entry is used to substitute strings?

%s

If vendors of a company court your favor, you should:

-Seek the advice and counsel of those knowledgeable in your company. -Ask questions when in doubt

A good way to troubleshoot your rocket simulation is:

-Try to think about what the computer is doing and how that might cause the symptoms you are seeing -Print out intermediate values to the console and compare with expectations -Show values in the window title so you can see if they are changing like you would expect

Project Mercury involved individual crew sizes of:

1

The Solar Cycle "max/min" occurs over a/an ______ cycle:

11 years

Generally speaking, at least what GPA is usually needed for internships and/or job opportunities?

3.0

Life Support systems are typically comprised of ____________ major subsystems.

6

How many points are there on the snowflake constructed from three squares?

9

What is the registry on Windows operating system?

A tree-structured database of key-value pairs that is used to store associations such as file types

Our Guest Speaker, Mr. Engel, listed 3 steps for succeeding with team work. Select each of those 3 steps.

Analyze & Self-Reflect Don't be afraid to try and fail & try again. Communication, Communication, Communication

Which rocket has a structure that is akin to to a beer can?

Atlas

Detailed knowledge of the space environment aids engineers in:

Controlling costs/schedules Spacecraft design Troubleshooting problems

The "Big Picture," is:

Being able to see general ideas; all inputs, considerations and issues

Dynamic Pressure & Static Pressure is related to the Total Pressure by:

Bernoulli's Equation

The Guest Speaker in today's lecture was an Iowa State alum who currently works as a manager at which company?

Boeing

Which aircraft was discussed in lecture as being comprised of mostly composite materials?

Boeing 787 Dreamliner

How are file types generally identified by your computer's operating system?

By the filename extension

Project Gemini was the first NASA Program to evaluate techniques for:

Docking EVA Rendezvous

A supposed "key" to the future of human space flight lies with:

Commercialization

The lowest speed of an aircraft at which the airflow over some point of the craft reaches the speed of sound is known as:

Critical Mach Number

The first US Astronaut to perform a spacewalk (EVA) was ___________ .

Ed White

__________________ is a branch of mathematics concerned with the analysis of strategies for dealing with competitive situations that are dependent on the action(s) of others.

Game Theory

The last American to set foot on the lunar surface was:

Gene Cernan

Selection and crossover are procedures used in which heuristic optimization technique?

Genetic Algorithms

What force keeps a satellite in orbit around the Earth?

Gravitational

The South Atlantic Anomaly is a region of:

High radiation

This orbital maneuver transfers a satellite/spacecraft from one circular orbit to another circular orbit with the use of a separate elliptical orbit.

Hohmann Transfer

Rocket fuels that spontaneously ignite when they come into contact with each other are called?

Hypergolics

Our guest speaker and Professor Rayburn acted out a quick demonstration in class to help illustrate...

Incorrect & Correct Leadership & Management communication techniques

This type of drag is experienced as a result of obtaining lift on an aircraft.

Induced Drag

Solar Electric Propulsion is an innovative method for propulsion in space flight. Another name for this type of propulsion is

Ion Propulsion

Per the lecture, what term was used to best describe the Engineering Design Process?

Iterative

A Space Shuttle Commander is a good example of a:

Leader

The Earth's Magnetosphere:

Leads to higher radiation doses for space fliers Traps high energy radiation Can cause radio blackouts

During the NASA video during today's lecture, Alan Stern mentioned that the success of New Horizons making it successfully to Pluto was mathematically comparable to hitting a golf ball from one city into a soup can in another city. Which two cities did he mention?

Los Angeles to New York City

When designing a LSCES, from whom/what are the requirements NOT obtained?

Mathematical Algorithms

Who is the game show host that was mentioned in class today?

Monty Hall

Our guest speaker had everyone in class turn their mobile phones off in the beginning of the lecture. He did so because studies have shown that people (in college AND in industry) have trouble with...

Multitasking

What is a "vectorized" operation?

Operates on each element of the vector or array

An orbital eccentricity, e, of 1 indicates that the orbit is ____________________.

Parabolic

What is the closest orbital point of an object in orbit around the Moon?

Perilune

The pillars of Utility Theory are:

Preferences, Beliefs, & Alternatives

Virgin Galactic anticipates launching humans into space in a fashion similar to what NASA did with:

Project Mercury

Winglets reduce the induced drag on an aircraft by:

Reducing the vortices at the wingtips.

A system or design that is engineered to withstand and/or overcome adverse conditions and minimize unintended consequences is known as ____________________.

Robust

Today's space program relies on _____________ to deliver humans to orbit and the ISS:

Russia?

What term is defined as "force per amount of propellant, per unit time"?

Specific Impulse

What are the three main Aircraft Performance Factors to consider within aircraft design?

Speed, Range, & Endurance

What is the "simplified" order of the airflow through a turbine?

Suck, Squeeze, Burn, Blow

In the game show scenario that was shown and discussed during lecture, what should you always do?

Swap your choice

How are the mean camber line and the camber of an airfoil related?

The camber is the ratio of the mean camber line distance and chord distance.

What is known as the 7 Minutes of Terror?

The time between the Mars Rover Entry, Descent, and Landing.

Name the 4 forms of communication that were discussed during lecture today?

Through Authority Non-Verbally Verbally Visually

Company loyalty is:

To be valued in proper perspective

Why are certain shapes cut into the solid rocket fuel grain?

To change the surface area of the exposed propellant for desired rocket performance.

The major areas of the atmosphere that aerospace engineers need to be aware of are:

Troposphere/Mesosphere/Stratosphere

This type of high-bypass propulsion engine is most widely used on commercial aircraft.

Turbofan

What tells us the risk preferences of an individual?

Utility Function

When your code has a flaw that an attacker can exploit to take control, the flaw is known specifically as a

Vulnerability

What product was created as a result of Atlas rocket testing?

WD-40

Your company's rules are:

Your responsibility to know and understand

Which is a professional society for Aerospace Engineers? a) American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) b) Society of Aviation Engineers c) National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) d) National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR)

a) American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

What was the Engineer's answer (per the lecture) to "The Glass" example. a) None of these b) Half Full c) Half Empty d) Completely full (half water, half air/gas).

a) None of these

Human Space Exploration is advantageous because it _____________ .

allows real-time approaches/solutions to problems.

What kind of loop do we usually use in Python to repeat something a fixed number of times:

for

In an open-loop life support system, matter continuously flows ______ the system.

in and out of

As velocity of an airflow decreases over the surface of a wing, the pressure on that portion of the wing will..

increase.

How do I convert a string to an integer in Python?

int(string_variable)

Robotic space systems can be used to perform ____________ .

repetitive tasks. tedious tasks. dangerous activities.

Mission Control, a Shuttle or Station Crew, the Houston Astros and the ISU Cyclones are examples of:

shared goals mutual trust diverse skill sets accountability

Skylab missions were shorter than/longer than/the same as ISS missions:

shorter than

On a wing, what is located directly behind the stagnation point in the flow?

the wing

The International Space Station (ISS) and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have different orbital inclinations, because ________.

they were launched at different latitudes.

Dysfunctional teams avoid or fail to exhibit:

trust unity accountability commitment

What is the difference between a list, a tuple, and a nump array?

tuple is immutable, list can be modified, array is for efficient math

The flight path of a knuckleball is unpredictable and erratic because the baseball has been thrown...

with a lack of rotation/spin.