CS1200 Exam Review questions with
verified answers passed
*Challenges*: Avoid vs. Embrace
*Obstacles*: Give up vs. Persist/Learn
*Effort*: Unpleasant/Fruitless vs. Growth/Mastery
*Criticism*: Ignore/Insult vs. Seek/Learn
*Success of Others*: Feel threatened vs. Lessons/Inspiration - correct answer ✔✔Growth vs.
Fixed Mindset
*Effort* - "Work Hard"
*Approach* - "Work Smart"
*Attitude* - "Think Positively" - correct answer ✔✔Keys to Success in Engineering Study
1. Setting Goals
2. Strengthening commitment to goals
3. Changing negative attitudes
4. Changing non-productive behaviors - correct answer ✔✔4. Summary of Success Process
1. Too much fun at the expense of classes and grades
2. A sense of not belonging; a sense of isolation; homesickness
3. Academically unprepared; burned out on education
4. Financial constraints; low on funds
5. Personal family issues
6 Academic climate/fit
, 7. Choice of wrong major/major not offered
8. Lack of advising, guidance
9. Demands from employment
10. Move to a different geographic location - correct answer ✔✔5. Major Reasons people drop
out of college
"Engineering is the profession in which a *knowledge of the mathematical and natural
sciences*, gained by study, experience, and practice, is applied with judgment to develop ways
to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of [hu]mankind." -
correct answer ✔✔6. Definition of Engineering
no - correct answer ✔✔7. Is engineering education limiting
is *meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs*
a. Global warming/climate change
b. Ozone depletion
c. Water quality and quantity
d. Air pollution
e. Dependence on fossil fuels/energy crisis
f. Unsustainable agriculture
g. Threat of disease
h. Waste management and land pollution
i. Over-consumption
j. World hunger
k. Loss of ecosystems/deforestation/animal extinction - correct answer ✔✔Definition of
Sustainability
verified answers passed
*Challenges*: Avoid vs. Embrace
*Obstacles*: Give up vs. Persist/Learn
*Effort*: Unpleasant/Fruitless vs. Growth/Mastery
*Criticism*: Ignore/Insult vs. Seek/Learn
*Success of Others*: Feel threatened vs. Lessons/Inspiration - correct answer ✔✔Growth vs.
Fixed Mindset
*Effort* - "Work Hard"
*Approach* - "Work Smart"
*Attitude* - "Think Positively" - correct answer ✔✔Keys to Success in Engineering Study
1. Setting Goals
2. Strengthening commitment to goals
3. Changing negative attitudes
4. Changing non-productive behaviors - correct answer ✔✔4. Summary of Success Process
1. Too much fun at the expense of classes and grades
2. A sense of not belonging; a sense of isolation; homesickness
3. Academically unprepared; burned out on education
4. Financial constraints; low on funds
5. Personal family issues
6 Academic climate/fit
, 7. Choice of wrong major/major not offered
8. Lack of advising, guidance
9. Demands from employment
10. Move to a different geographic location - correct answer ✔✔5. Major Reasons people drop
out of college
"Engineering is the profession in which a *knowledge of the mathematical and natural
sciences*, gained by study, experience, and practice, is applied with judgment to develop ways
to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of [hu]mankind." -
correct answer ✔✔6. Definition of Engineering
no - correct answer ✔✔7. Is engineering education limiting
is *meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs*
a. Global warming/climate change
b. Ozone depletion
c. Water quality and quantity
d. Air pollution
e. Dependence on fossil fuels/energy crisis
f. Unsustainable agriculture
g. Threat of disease
h. Waste management and land pollution
i. Over-consumption
j. World hunger
k. Loss of ecosystems/deforestation/animal extinction - correct answer ✔✔Definition of
Sustainability
