Tuesday, May 15, 2007

From the File of Rejected Final Exam Questions

Problem 4 [20 pts] It is the year 2017. You are a Captain assigned to the postwar reconstruction of Iran. Your task is to design a distribution system to supply the town of Sirjan from a power generating station in the city of Shiraz. . . .

Problem 10 [20 pts]: It is the year 2027. You are now a Lieutenant Colonel leading counter-insurgency operations in support of the newly independent Republica de Mexifornia. Intelligence reports indicate the breakaway province of Orange County has received covert military supplies from the Greater Chinese Co-Prosperity League (GCCPL). You must interdict these supplies at their storage depot in the Anaheim Angel Stadium.

The rules of engagement forbid you to cross into Mexifornian airspace. You must launch your attack using GPS-guided AGM-86D air-launched cruise missiles from the border town of Bullhead, AZ, approximately 200 miles away from the target.

You suspect that the Orange County insurgents are receiving radar information from a GCCPL KJ-2000 airborne radar flying at 20,000 ft MSL, just outside of Mexifornian territorial waters, and approximately 300 miles from Bullhead . . . .

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