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Practical Sustainability
How are standards important to ENSO? When you have an organization like ASTM building international standards, it helps reduce market fragmentation that would otherwise occur. One thing that ASTM does really well is creating standards and bringing… more
Industry sectors:
Environment

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Standards and Biodiesel
What is the significance of including biodiesel in more traditional fuels and fuels standards? With today’s regulations, the National Biodiesel Board wants to bring forth credible technical evidence for biodiesel as a fuel component in today’s… more
Industry sectors:
Energy

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Advancing Additive Manufacturing
What does your organization bring to the new ASTM International Center of Excellence? Steven Taylor, Auburn University: Auburn brings to the table vast experience in education and workforce development and in research — we have faculty researching… more
Industry sectors:
Metals & Materials, Quality

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Buildings and Resilience
How has your experience as a survivor of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, informed your work? It was a life-changing event for me, both personally and for my goals in life. It helped me realize that resilience and disaster prevention would become my… more
Industry sectors:
Construction, Safety, Environment, Energy

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SWE’s 2018 President Talks about Women in Engineering
Why did you become an engineer? I was going to be an architect. I thought it would be cool to design buildings, and I had an uncle who was an architect. I started thinking about that and went to an architecture program where you spent your summer on… more
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The Manufacturing Institutes and their Impact
You currently lead the U.S. Department of Defense Manufacturing Institutes. Why are they important? What is their impact? The Department of Defense Manufacturing Institutes help develop nascent technology communities that are of interest to the DOD… more
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Of Bone, Cells, and Standards
What sparked your interest in materials engineering for medical applications? In high school, I wrote a science report about bone. I had to describe the structure of bone and how it worked. I became interested then — and still am — in conducting… more
Industry sectors:
Medical

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Leading Voices: Cement and Concrete Standards
    Manuel Lascarro What large infrastructure projects are being developed in Latin America and how will standards help make them a reality? Since the construction of the original Panama Canal, which has been in service since 1914, to the expansion… more
Industry sectors:
Transportation, Environment, Construction, Safety

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Testing and Trade
Why is Inspectorate involved with ASTM’s Proficiency Testing Program? One of the primary reasons Inspectorate has been involved, and probably the most important, is that it is an excellent quality assurance tool. PTP provides us an indication of… more
Industry sectors:
Consumer Products, Metals & Materials, Transportation, Chemicals, Energy, Quality

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Standards, Regulations and Incorporation by Reference
An Interview with Emily Bremer of the Administrative Conference of the United States1 Incorporation by reference, and the related study and recommendations by the Administrative Conference of the United States, as well as the public-private… more
Industry sectors:
Medical, Chemicals, Energy, Consumer Products, Metals & Materials, Quality, Transportation, Environment, Safety, Construction