HPAC 2022: Our Fifth Quiz of the Year!

*SPRING FINALS​* Our May questions take on a Mother's Day focus and look at some of the pioneering women in our industry. So, put away your calculators and dust off your history books for this one... Test Your Smarts! Win Prizes! Join in the HVACR fun!

 

The heating, piping, and air conditioning industry has been a fixture of ‘civilized’ life on Planet Earth for well over a century, and the focus of this venerable publication since 1929. The inventive and problem-solving work of engineers, manufacturers, and building owners have continuously helped to expand the impact of the HVACR industry beyond creature comforts and food and data storage to life and death issues like greenhouse gas reductions and, especially today, virus mitigation.

 

With all that in mind, HPAC Engineering here welcomes you to join us on a fun monthly ride through the milestones, innovations, people, places, problems and products that have come to define this industry and your work. Hopefully, there may even be a chuckle or two along the way. So, here goes, and see below for your chances to win a $50 Amazon gift card.

1) May flowers always make us think of ‘Mothers Day,’ so this quiz will look at some of the mothers of our industry. First off, this African-American woman was born in Morristown NJ in 1895, graduated from Howard University in 1910 and later made history as an inventor who is now regarded as the “Mother of the Modern Gas Furnace.” What is her name?

A. Ida M. Tarbell

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C. Frances Perkins
D. Margaret Ingels
Source: BlackPast.org
2. This female innovator and educator was born in Paris, KY, in 1892 and later became the first woman to earn a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Kentucky in 1916. Over the next five decades, she would study, research, write and teach on the subject of heating and air conditioning, mostly for Carrier-Lyle Corp. What is her name?
A. Wilma Carrier

B. Sophie Tucker

C. Alice B. Parker

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Source: University of Kentucky College of Engineering
3. She was the first female president of ASHRAE? Please name her.

A. Ginger Scoggins

B. Sheila Hayter
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D. Theresa Townsend
Source: ASHRAE
4. Two disciplines have both been called the “Mother of Engineering” because of their broad influence on all the branches of the field, depending on one’s interpretation of when it all started. Which two have claimed that title?

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B. Chemical engineering

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D. Electrical engineering
Source: Quora.com
5. International Women in Engineering Day will be celebrated on June 23, 2022. That will mark the ninth annual celebration since the event was born in 2014. It was initially created by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), which itself began in 1919. Which nation was its birthplace?
A. France
B. United States
C. Germany

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Source: @WES1919