New Website Debuts, Hosted by Northwestern University

Sandards are boring and should just be left to standards developers.

At least that is what many clearly think. Despite the…

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Meeting Change Head-On

Most of us can earn a satisfactory wage. But do you ever wonder how much more you could contribute to society if your self-image evolved from being a specialist to…

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Polymers Properties Course Work Increases Understanding of ASTM Standards

Many of the students at Kettering University in Flint, Mich., undertake cooperative work assignments in the…

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New ASTM Resource Provides Materials for Standards Education

ASTM International has produced a new academic offering to help university professors provide information about technical…

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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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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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Setting the Standard

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

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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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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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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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