ASTM Announces Project Grant Winners

Each year ASTM International offers a limited number of $500 grants to university students to help with student design projects that contain…

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It's never too soon to teach kids about science, engineering… and even standards.

There once was a time when science and engineering were considered not only good ways to make a…

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Learn how to attract the next generation of standards developers to your technical committee's work through these success stories.

An oft-quoted maxim says that if you give someone a…

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A Report on the 2014 ICES Conference

In forming the group that would become the International Cooperation for Education about Standardization, or ICES, John Hill, standards manager at…

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The Case for Standards in the Classroom

It is vitally important, for many reasons, that students are introduced to international standards that are relevant to their disciplines during…

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Teaching the Value of Standards Through Senior Design Work

My standards education began in 1990 when I became the chairman of an ASTM International task group. I was the group leader of…

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ASTM Members Offer Assistance and Support for College and University Efforts

Students from the City College of New York attend the first installment of the Phase…

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Setting the Standard

Washington Internships for Students of Engineering is a nine-week experiential public policy program designed for…

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Lessons Learned While Playing a Game Applicable in Real Life

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Standards Coordination Office offers training to government agencies on…

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Guidance and Opportunity

In a 1999 article for SN, I posed a question about whether standards and codes in engineering higher education were "confounding constraints or helpful…

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