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2025 - Letters to a Pre-Scientist Award---Sierra Miller

Letters to a Pre-Scientist (LPS) connects students to STEM professionals through snail mail to broaden students ’ awareness of what STEM professionals look like and do at work and inspire all students to explore a future in STEM. LPS asked their...

Exporting American Made Products Globally

Exporting by manufacturers supports jobs and the U.S. economy. This infographic highlights the opportunities available for small and medium...

Documenting Traceability and Calibration Intervals

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar covers the essential elements of metrological traceability, and the documentary evidence...

Internal Auditing Best Practices

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar will consider internal auditing techniques and best practices that are used by a metrology...

Metrology for Digital Twins: Connecting CHIPS Metrology and SMART USA

Tue, Jun 24 2025

This is a two-part CHIPS Metrology + SMART USA workshop series, focused on building meaningful connections between SMART

Kamel Saidi Receives 2025 Washington Academy of Sciences Leadership Award

For outstanding leadership and significant impacts on advanced manufacturing, construction, and emergency response capabilities and standards, particularly for the fields of robotics and 3D imaging.

Eric Link is Receives 2025 Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS) Excellence in Research Award in Engineering

To recognize a person for outstanding research contributions in any scientific or engineering discipline.

Wai Cheong Tam Receives AOSFST Best Oral Presentation

Development of a Robust Early-Stage Thermal Runaway Detection Model for Lithium-ion Batteries by Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology Conference (2024)

Software Verification and Validation Part I & II

Description and Purpose: These two 2-hour sessions on Software Verification and Validation, hosted by the NIST Office of Weights and...

State Laboratory Annual Submission Process

Description and Purpose: The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) State Laboratory Annual Submission Process webinar provides guidance...

Document Control and Record Keeping

Description and Purpose: This NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) 2-hour webinar introduces the fundamentals of Laboratory Management...

Contract Review

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar from the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) introduces the fundamentals of contract...

Calibration Certificate Evaluation

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar from the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) introduces concepts necessary to...

Calibration Method Validation

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar from the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) examines ISO/IEC 17025:2017 requirements for...

Basic Uncertainty Concepts

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar offered by the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) provides a basic introduction to...

Metric System Education Resources

Description and Purpose: This 1.5-hour session explores educational publications and freely downloadable metric resources provided by the...

Flammability Metrics for Next Generation Refrigerants

There is an accelerating worldwide movement towards the use of new refrigerant gases in heating, cooling, and refrigeration equipment. This movement has already

Infrared Imaging of Live Cells: Absolute Quantity Measurement of Biomolecules

Quantitative chemical imaging of live cells is a long-standing measurement goal in cell-based sciences and industries. Infrared (IR) transmission microscopy is

Down-the-road (DTR) radar

Down-the-road (DTR) radar is the most widely used vehicle speed measurement technology in the United States. Ensuring the accuracy and reliability of these

NanoFab Tool: Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Silicon Etcher: Oxford PlasmaPro 100 Cobra

The Oxford Silicon PlasmaPro 100 Cobra etcher is a fluorocarbon based plasma etch system that provides users anisotropic etching of silicon at room and low

NanoFab Tool: Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Metal Etcher: Oxford PlasmaPro 100 Cobra

The Oxford Metal PlasmaPro 100 Cobra etcher is a chlorine-based plasma etch system that provides users with selective etching of metals. The tool is equipped

Amy Mensch is Selected for the 2025 ASME Lakshmi Singh Early Career Leadership Award

This award recognizes early-career women engineers who have demonstrated considerable leadership in, commitment to, and continued service to ASME. Sponsored by the Petroleum Division, the award honors the work of Lakshmi Singh, a talented early...

BIPM 150th Anniversary Standout Poster

May 23, 2025

World Metrology Day (20 May 2025) marked the sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, of the Meter Convention. NIST and the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM)...

How Do You Measure It? Site Receives Communicator Award of Distinction

The How Do You Measure It? website received a Communicator Award of Distinction in the General-Science and Technology category and the General-Government category. The Award of Distinction is presented to projects that exceed industry standards in...

Atomic Clock Site Receives Communicator Award of Excellence

The Atoms: Nature's Perfect Timekeeper website received a Communicator Award of Excellence in the General-Science and Technology category. The Award of Excellence is the highest honor. It is only given to those entrants whose work demonstrates their...

50 Years of Fire Safety Advances Site Receives Communicator Award of Excellence and Award of Distinction

The 50 Years of Fire Safety Advances website received a Communicator Award of Excellence in the General-Science and Technology category and an Award of Distinction in the General-Government category. The Award of Excellence is the highest honor. It...