Electrical Engineering Quiz

What experiment sparked electrical engineering?

• Discovery of fire

• Tesla’s lightbulb patent

• Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment

• Telegraph

What innovation was a result of the telegraph?

• Morse code

• Cell phone

• Texting

• Email

What did Benjamin Franklin discover in his kite-flying experiment?

• Electricity

• Electrons

• How to integrate power into homes

• Electric spark created between charges

An ohm describes which of the following?

• Relationship between electrical currents and the potential difference in the conductor

• Relationship between electrical currents and the atmosphere

• Relationship between electrical currents and individuals

• Relationships between electrical currents and a generator

Which of the following does the generator NOT power?

• Lights in a house

• Heater

• Plumbing

• Refrigerator

What are significant innovations to electrical engineering and who was the engineer?

• Nikola Tesla (AC system), John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley (transistor), Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce (integrated circuit)
• Alexander Graham Bell (telephone)
• James Clerk Maxwell (electromagnetism)
• Thomas Edison (light bulb)

How do the significant innovations make an impact on the discipline and society?

Electrical engineering is charged to improve systems and processes through _____________

• technology and innovation
• manual labor and tradition
• random chance and luck
• outdated methods and practices

Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone invented the _____________: transfers messages through a wire

• wireless telegraph
• electric generator
• telegraph

• telephone

Samuel Morse developed _____________ code