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NextGen: Student Awards, Scholarships, and More
Here is all of the latest news about student members, faculty members, and the broader community working to inspire the next generation of standardization.
In each issue of Standardization News, we provide updates about ASTM International student members, faculty, and other professionals who are helping inspire the next generation of standardization. In the September/October issue, we shared the… more
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NIST Invites Applications for Standards Curriculum Development
The Standards Coordination Office at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology invites applications for the 2016 Standards Services Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program. This program provides financial support for the… more
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Preparing the Next Generation
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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Standards in Capstone Design
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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Teaching Professional Skills to University Students
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 II environmental site assessments course through the college's Department of Earth… more
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The WISE Program
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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A Game About Standards
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 standards, conformity assessment and related topics. One such… more
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Standards in the Classroom
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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ASTM Debuts Professor's Tool Kit
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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Metals & Materials, Medical, Energy, Consumer Products, Environment, Safety, Quality, Transportation, Chemicals, Construction

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Passing the Torch
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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Transportation, Environment, Medical, Consumer Products, Quality, Energy, Safety, Construction, Chemicals, Metals & Materials

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Developing Standards Professionals
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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