After a successful round of "JeopardEngineering" at the 2024 ASCE Region 2 Assembly in Reston VA Pat Sullivan, PE, Program Director for the Pittsburgh Section, AND a Water Resource Principal with Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., brought the real-life game board to CMU.   On April 15, 2025, Mr. Sullivan, with financial assistance from Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. treated 20 students with pizza and cookies, and followed dinner with the game of Jeopardy.  Following the same rules as the TV show, Pat did his best impersonation of the great Alex Trebek, divided the students into 4 teams, and played Jeopardy.  Pat brought with him 4 buzzers and with the help of CMU officers Jordyn Le and Lillian Keith functioning as judges to identify which team buzzed in first, started the show.

The Jeopardy round provided 5 categories…. UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS, WHAT I LEARNED IN COLLEGE, SPORTS, ENGINEERING MATERIALS, and ASCE.

The categories for Double Jeopardy round included “IT WAS ‘MENT’ TO BE, CIVIL ENGINEERING MARVELS, REGION 2 ASCE, FOOD AND DRINK, and EXTREMELY RANDOM CALCS.

Throughout the game, some students ignored, or bent the rules a bit.  Some answers were not made in the form of a question, resulting in the disqualification of the team’s answer.  Other teams buzzed in quickly using their answer, but in the correct form of a question.  Other teams buzzed in to provide the answer, not in the form of a question, and were quickly reminded by their team members to phrase it in the form of a question.  Pat gave them a pass on that last-second adjustment.  Some of the CMU students did not accept the official answers and went to AI to verify.  They received a stern look from me!  We had daily doubles, just like in the show, and Final Jeopardy.  The category for Final Jeopardy was US GEOGRAPHY.  If you want to know the answer….come to the next show!

Winners were presented with a championship certificate to proudly display in front of their defeated classmates, and some CEC bling items!

  

Thanks to everyone who participated and to Lilian and Jordyn and Dr. Jerry Wang for helping arrange the event.

Authored by: Pat Sullivan, PE