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Evan Wallace Receives the AgGateway President’s Award

Evan Wallace is an electronic engineer in the Systems Engineering Group and has been engaged with AgGateway since the days of the CART project when the Food Safety Modernization Act came out. He also helped rationalize the concepts of the ‘Traceable...

Lisa Ng Receives the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award

The Distinguished Service Award salutes members of any grade who have served the Society faithfully and with distinction and who have given freely of their time and talent in chapter, regional and Society activities.

Shawn Moylan Receives the Washington Academy of Sciences 2024 Leadership Award in Manufacturing Engineering

For outstanding leadership and significant impacts on advanced manufacturing capabilities and standards for the United States, particularly for the field of additive manufacturing.

Amy Mensch Receives the Penn State Mechanical Engineering Society’s (PSMES’s) Early Career Award

For exemplary contributions in the engineering profession in 10 years or less since graduation, including research advancements, leadership contributions, academic achievements, and community involvement.

Paul Witherell was Elected, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

ASME's Fellow grade of membership is a prestigious honor that recognizes outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering.

NIST 2009 Open Machine Translation Evaluation (MT09) Official Release of Results

Date of release: Tue Oct 27 15:48:58 2009 Version: mt09_public_v1 The NIST 2009 Open Machine Translation Evaluation (MT09) is part of an...

Materials Structure

Ab Initio Theoretical Modeling for Predicting Structure and Properties in Advanced Materials We develop first-principles-based methods for...

2024 Accolades

The 10th Annual MML Accolades Program was held on September 5, 2024 at 1:30pm ET / 11:30am MT at the Boulder, Charleston, and Gaithersburg...

NIST Releases Second Public Draft of Digital Identity Guidelines for Final Review

August 21, 2024

The guidance aims to ensure security, privacy and accessibility during the identity-proofing process for people accessing government services.

2025 MBE & QIF Summit Call for Presentations Open

August 26, 2024

Planning for the 2025 MBE & QIF Summit at MxD in Chicago on April 15-17, 2025, is underway. NIST and the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium will organize...

MMSD Staff Release Version 5.2 of SRD31, Phase Equilibria Diagrams (PED)

September 25, 2024

The third Series-5 release of SRD31 is now commercially available and provides users with processing information for more than 200 material systems not...

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Structural Metrology of Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Advanced manufacturing processes create novel materials and components with superior properties and performance, enhancing the precision, efficiency, and

Metric Ruler (SP 376)

Metric Ruler (SP 376) Edition: 2024 Keywords: Centi, classroom, deci, dimension, distance, education, International System of Units, length...

Metric Conversion Card (SP 365)

Metric Conversion Card (SP 365) Edition: 2024 Keywords: Area, degree Celsius, dimension, education, factor, gram, International System of...

The OWM Contacts System Gets a Makeover this September!

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is thrilled to announce that the OWM Contacts System has undergone a significant upgrade to...

NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards

August 13, 2024

NIST is encouraging computer system administrators to begin transitioning to the new standards as soon as possible.

Additive Manufacturing of Materials

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) is uniquely suited to study and measure the fundamental...

Lithium Batteries and the Circular Economy

Lithium batteries power a range of personal consumer products (e.g., cell phones, medical devices, vehicles, etc.). Efficient, cost...

ACMD Seminar: Mass Transfer, Energy Dissipation, and Global Solutions in a Micro-scale Model of Superfluidity

Pranava Jayanti RTPC Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Southern California Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 3:00-4:00 PM ET...

Tina Butcher Receives 2024 National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) Lifetime Achievement Award

Tina Butcher’s wisdom, friendship, and commitment through the years has been of immeasurable value to regulatory programs, industries, and consumers.

IEEE 1451.0 - 2024 Standard Published Under Leadership of NIST Researchers

July 1, 2024

NIST researchers Eugene Song and Kang Lee chaired and led the development of the IEEE 1451.0 TM-2024 Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and...

Hawaii MEP Tours the CTL Operational Technology Cybersecurity Laboratory

July 1, 2024

NIST researchers from the Communications Technology Laboratory's Smart Connected Systems Division recently hosted representatives from the Hawaii Technology...

NIST Leads U.S. Delegation to Singapore World Cities Summit

July 1, 2024

On 02-06 June 2024, the NIST Smart Cities program lead, Dr. Michael Dunaway, led a U.S. delegation to the World Cities Summit (WCS) in Singapore to discuss...

NIST Researcher Provides Insights on Interoperability Testing Methods of Smart Sensors at 2024 Sensor Converge

July 1, 2024

NIST researcher Dr. Eugene Song provided a presentation of interoperability testing methods of smart sensors in Internet of Things (IoT)/Industrial IoT (IIoT)...

NIST Researchers Present Tutorial on Discrete-Event Manufacturing Simulation Using Open-Source SimPROCESD Environment

July 1, 2024

At the 2024 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) in Washington, DC, NIST researchers Serghei Drozdov and Mehdi Dadfarnia gave a 90-minute tutorial...

NIST to Host Technical Language Processing Virtual Workshop on 24-25 September 2024

July 1, 2024

NIST will hold a virtual workshop on Technical Language Processing on 24-25 September 2024. Online registration is $33.00 USD and is available via the workshop...

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2024 - AOAC Award in Recognition of Technical and Scientific Excellence---Ishi Keenum, Jason Kralj, and Stephanie Servetas

Ishi Keenum, Jason Kralj, and Stephanie Servetas of the Biosystems and Biomaterials Division Complex Microbial Systems Group received the 2024 AOAC Award in Recognition of Technical and Scientific Excellence for their paper on Amplicon Sequencing...

LANTERN - Interpretable modeling of genotype-phenotype landscapes with state-of-the-art predictive power

Diverse biological sciences, from engineering to epidemiology, benefit from an increased understanding of how genetic code (genotype) determines downstream

2024 Stakeholder Meeting for NIST Support of EPA in Implementing the Clean Air Act

Tue, Sep 10 - Wed, Sep 11 2024

2024 Stakeholder Meeting for NIST Support of EPA in Implementing the Clean Air Act The NIST Gas Sensing Metrology Group

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