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Jordan Weaver Receives 2022 Acta Materialia Outstanding Reviewer Award

The Outstanding Reviewer awards are for excellence in reviewing throughout the calendar year of 2022. These awards are selected by the

Lisa Ng receives 2023 Excellence in Co-Operative Education Award

Selected by members of the Alumni Board of Governors and presented annually at the Steinbright Career Development Center's Co-op Awards

Atomic Force Microscopy Methods for Soft Materials

Summary We are working to develop methods and refine experimental techniques to quantify the mechanical properties of soft and biological...

ACMD Seminar: The Neumann Problem for the bi-Laplacian in Infinite Sectors

Jeongsu Kyeong Graduate Student, Dept. of Mathematics, Temple University Tuesday, August 22, 2023, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT) A video...

Direct Ink Writing of ZnO for Additive Manufacturing: Interparticle Force Measurements via AFM

Summary Our objective is to develop accurate Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) fluid cell techniques and colloidal probe fabrication procedures...

Your Turn

Take a deeper dive and evaluate your key processes and results. Below are key questions for each of the fundamental areas of the Foundations...

What’s Next?

Foundations for a Successful Business is a start toward sustained success and ever-higher levels of performance. Engage Your Organization...

Learn and Improve

Learn and improve—results should guide your next steps. Review results What you are and are not doing well What you should improve or change...

Results

Measure your results—they tell you how well you are doing. Find out how you are doing Track results that lead toward your vision Track...

Operations

Establish effective and efficient operations that deliver high-quality products and services—no margin, no mission. Design your processes...

Workforce

Engage and empower your people—they should be a competitive advantage. Hire and develop your workforce Support your workforce Offer ways to...

Data and Analysis

Use data and information to make decisions—your “gut instinct” will only take you so far. Decide on a few measures Start making decisions...

Customers

Engage your customers – they are the source of your business. What are your customer expectations Designing your products and services...

Strategy

Prepare for the future—or you won’t be in it. Strategy Develop specific objectives and measurable goals Identify and consider innovative...

Leadership

Share your vision and lead your organization—leadership is behavior and actions, not a position. Help workforce understand and achieve your...

Foundations for a Successful Business Interactive Modules

Introduction & Organizational Context Start with a deeper understanding of your organization. Decide on your mission and vision and what...

Photo on top showing researchers studying a large concrete structure on a wall; image on bottom showing a heat map of forces on a similar simulated structural column.

New Building Standard Paves the Way for Collapse-Resistant Structures

June 5, 2023

A new building standard can help engineers prevent the worst.

Organizational Context

Start with a deeper understanding of your organization. Defining Your Mission and Vision What Groups of People Are Important What Are Your...

2022 Bronze Medal Award

Dr. Meisenkothen is honored for the development of standards-based techniques for atom probe tomography. Application of these techniques

5871 Document Control and Record Keeping

Thu, Aug 17 2023, 2:00 - 4:00pm EDT

This 2-hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of Laboratory Management System Document Control and Record Keeping

Nevada Industry Excellence Has Rebranded as Manufacture Nevada

April 4, 2023

Nevada Industry Excellence (NVIE) is an Outreach Program of the University of Nevada, Reno’s Research & Innovation division. To better align with its vision and

2022 APS Fellow - Angela R. Hight Walker

For pioneering advancements to the measurement science of Raman spectroscopy for quantifying light-matter interactions of low-dimensional

Foundations for a Successful Business

Introducing a Systems Perspective for Your Organization Leading an organization is complex and often chaotic. Managing that complexity well...

NIST’s SBIR Program Could be for You

April 26, 2023

Fascination with technological innovation is built into America’s DNA. Today’s legions of U.S. scientific and engineering researchers are directly connected to

MDKP-PWG Charter

Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes for Service Federation for 5G & Beyond Public Working Group (MDKP-PWG) I. MDKP-PWG Organizational Structure A...

Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes for Service Federation for 5G & Beyond Public Working Group (MDKP-PWG)

The NIST Transformational Networks and Services group, of NIST’s Communication Technology Laboratory’s Smart Connected Systems Division, has formed the Multi

CHIPS for America Outlines Vision for the National Semiconductor Technology Center

April 25, 2023

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a paper outlining its vision and strategy for a National

NIST at the 2023 Automate Show

May 22-25, 2023 Booth #745 Huntington Place Convention Center Detroit, Michigan The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST)...

JARVIS-ALIGNN, JARVIS-ALIGNN-FF

Our Atomistic Line Graph Neural Network (ALIGNN) models are designed to predict atomistic properties with high accuracy. They can successfully predict single

2022 - 5 Sigma Physicist Award---Michelle Bailey

Michelle Bailey is being recognized as a member of the joint Optica/APS Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations report panel. She

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