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Gaithersburg

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 will focus on the use of Microsoft Excel in...

State Laboratory Annual Submission Process

Description and Purpose: The State Laboratory Annual Submission Process webinar provides guidance on how to successfully submit all required...

Document Control and Record Keeping

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of Laboratory Management System Document Control and Record...

Contract Review

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of contract review that are necessary to meet customer...

Calibration Certificate Evaluation

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar will introduce concepts necessary to successfully implement ISO/IEC 17025:2017 compliant...

Calibration Method Validation

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar on Calibration Method Validation will examine the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 requirements for selection...

Basic Uncertainty Concepts

Description and Purpose: This 2-hour webinar provides a very basic introduction to uncertainty calculations and reporting using the 8-step...

Metric System Education Resources

Description and Purpose: The International System of Units (SI), commonly known as the metric system, is easy to use and learn when taught...

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

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...

Scott Dockum

Group Manager for Network Agreements Management B Group Scott Dockum is a Group Manager with the National Institute of Standards and...

About ITL

What ITL Does The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) is one of NIST’s six research laboratories that focuses on IT measurements...

2025 Early Career Scientist Award (ESCA) in Statistical Physics - Nicole Yunger Halpern

For her outstanding contributions bridging statistical physics, thermodynamics and quantum information theory. Specifically, Dr. Yunger Halpern provided fundamental results on non-Abelian thermodynamics and on the relationship between quantum chaos...

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