Standardization News

On March 23, the local section of the North American Thermal Analysis Society held their annual symposium at ASTM headquarters in West Conshohocken, Pa.

The symposium included a supplementary poster session supported by the Thermal Analysis Forum of the Delaware Valley and ASTM Committee E37 on Thermal Measurements, where several students presented papers and supporting materials.

Among the papers presented during the event was the winning paper from ASTM's 2010 senior design project grant contest, written by students Manik Pavan Maheswaram, Dhruthiman R. Mantheni and Shravan Singh Thakur from Cleveland State University. Under the guidance of adjunct professor Alan T. Riga, Ph.D., the students received a $500 grant for the paper, "Universal Standard Protocol for Temperature and Material Characterization Calibration with Pharmaceuticals."

For more information about Committee E37, contact Thomas O'Toole, manager, ASTM technical committee operations (phone: 610-832-9739; totoole@astm.org).

For information about ASTM student memberships, grants and scholarships, visit www.astm.org/studentmember, or contact Ileane Smith, manager, member promotion and academic outreach (phone: 610-832-9552; ismith@astm.org).