Preparing for an Engineering Interview

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Check out the following sample questions that you may be asked in an engineering interview.

Biomedical

  • What is the capacity of human brain memory?
  • What is the abbreviation of CTF-FTB?

Chemical

  • How would you mix two unknown chemicals?
  • What is a unit operation?
  • How would you separate water and benzene?

Civil

  • In your opinion, what is the best design for building bridges?
  • What are some of the different ways to lay a foundation?
  • What is soft soil?

Computer Science

  • What are data structures?
  • Reverse a linked list.
  • Swap two numbers without using temporary space.
  • What is a DLL?
  • Describe what a telnet session entails.
  • Given a binary tree, we need to keep track of all the parents of a given node. What is an efficient way of doing this?
  • Describe Sparc RISC architecture.
  • Write code to reverse a linked list in C (and the structures). What’s the difference between Java and C++?
  • What is the difference between recursion and iteration?

Earth and Environmental

  • How can we control dust accumulation over solar cells?
  • Which country leads in green technology?

Electrical

  • How are analog signals converted to digital signals?
  • Explain the differences between a transistor and capacitor.

IEOR

  • What does “DC” stand for in supply chain management?
  • What is setup time and operation time?
  • Why are statistics important in Industrial Engineering?

Mechanical

  • Explain power technology.
  • Explain Newton’s Laws.
  • How is a factor of safety used in design?

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