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University of Alabama Graduate Student Receives Mary R. Norton Scholarship
Madyson Canulette (left), a student at the University of Alabama, has received the 2023 Mary R. Norton Scholarship Award for Women.
The $1,000 scholarship encourages women… more
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ASTM International is now offering a limited number of $500 grants to university students to help with student design projects that contain an ASTM International standards component. ASTM International will post the results as a student standards… more
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(Left to right) Katharine Morgan, executive vice president, ASTM meets with Think Like a Girl co-founders Megan DeGeorge, Alexis Basantis and Gabrielle Rochino, and their adviser, Jennifer A. Kadlowec, Ph.D., head of Rowan's Department of Mechanical… more
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Setting the Standard
Washington Internships for Students of Engineering is a nine-week experiential public policy program designed for engineering students between their junior and senior years in college. Each year, up to 15 students are chosen in… more
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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 an ASTM standards component. The 2015 project grant winners are:… more
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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 fish you may feed them for a day, but if you teach them how to… more
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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 Sun Microsystems, said, "Companies as well as standards bodies… more
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Chemicals, Metals & Materials, Construction, Quality, Medical, Environment, Transportation, Safety, Consumer Products, Energy
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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 standards as part of their engineering and business curricula.… more
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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 hindrances?"1 Well, a decade or so of educational and work experiences… more
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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 their time at university. These standards often contain… more
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Medical, Metals & Materials, Safety, Transportation, Environment, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Construction, Energy, Quality
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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 R&D for a medical device manufacturer, recognized the need… more
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Safety, Medical, Energy, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Construction, Quality, Metals & Materials, Transportation, Environment