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NextGen: ExoGames, Scholarships, and More
ASTM to Sponsor 2024 Exo Games, Centered on First Responders ASTM International’s Exo Technology Center of Excellence (ET CoE) is sponsoring the 2nd Annual Exo Games, an initiative to improve student involvement and education in the exo technologies… more
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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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Connecting with Students through Standards
2013 ASTM Professor of the Year Reflects on Engineering Education In the fall of 2013, Haibin Ning was named the ASTM International 2013 Professor of the Year for his work teaching undergraduate and graduate students about ASTM International… 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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Teaching Design Safety Early
Children's Product Safety and KID's TEST Program Kids In Danger was founded in 1998 after the death of Danny Keysar in a recalled portable crib. Danny's parents first set out to warn other parents of recalled products - something KID still does… more
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Tapping into the Future
ASTM Supports Students Incorporating Standards in Academic Work Students who emerge from college or university with an understanding of the role of standards in R&D, product design, securing public health and safety, attaining market access and… more
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Standards and Student Projects
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 manufacturing sector, where they encounter plastics product design… more
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Optimizing Your Career
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 being a savvy, all-around individual who has a technical… more
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