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WorksheetsSpring 2020 Morning Engineering Speaker Day
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 30mins
Jeff Beam and Lauren McCauley of Balfour Beatty Construction were the first presenters during Speaker Day last Friday morning. They said that all of the following are interesting aspects of their job EXCEPT
Coming to the same work site during your career
Every day is different – you don’t get stuck in a rut
Learning what others do in their jobs based on the construction
You get to meet a lot of people like the mayor or city commissioners
Balfour Beatty has been involved in all of the following local projects EXCEPT:
Building the Wake County Justice Center in Raleigh
Building baggage handling facility at RDU
Giving Durham City Hall a face-lift
Raising the can-opener bridge on Gregson Street in Durham by 8 inches
Mr. Beam’s and Ms. McCauley’s advice for being a successful team member included all of the following EXCEPT:
Build your reputation
Encourage others
Follow the money
Follow through
Another presenter during the morning sessions was Dr. Anton Bezuglov, a native Russian who is a data scientist at a company called Valassis. His graphic about dogs in China reveals an example that:
Analysis of data can be incorrect
Data lies
Not just the Russians are guilty of hacking
Visualizations of data can be incorrect
A phenomenon where a trend appears in several sets of data but disappears or reverses itself when the data sets are combined is known as:
Moore's Law
Simpson's Paradox
Singularity
The Tipping Point
A skill that a data scientist needs to consider when examining data and trying to draw conclusions is:
Approach the numbers with an open mind
Considering confounding variables
Critical thinking
All of the above
How fast did Dr. Bezuglov say that the process takes to identify what ads to display during an online auction when someone lands on a website page?
0.5 seconds
5 milliseconds
50 milliseconds
5 seconds
The morning’s final presenters, Dr. Mara Shurgot and Ms. Mariana Vazquez, represent an organization at Duke known as WASH-AID. The letters in that acronym capture all of the following EXCEPT:
Analgesics
Hygiene
Infectious Diseases
Water
Ms. Vazquez made her way first to Kansas University and then Duke by way of :
Caracas, Venezuela
La Paz, Bolivia
Montevideo, Uruguay
Sucre, Bolivia
How did Ms. Vazquez say electrochemistry can eliminate bad smells which contribute to sanitation problems?
By covering up the odor altogether
By mixing the odor with other odors
By making a change to the molecules our olfactory system picks up
By zapping offensive odors like phenols
