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Gaithersburg

Projects

Our projects cover multiple research areas. To view a project area, select the item in the left navigation menu, the link below, or the icon...

Visualization and Usability Group Staff

We have a multi-disciplinary team of human factors practitioners, computer scientists and social scientists. To contact the staff members...

About Us

Championing the user in information technology The Visualization and Usability Group is located in the Information Access Division of the...

Human Centered Design (HCD)

According to ISO 9241-210:2010(E) “human-centered design is an approach to interactive systems that aims to make systems usable and useful...

Research Methods

This section explains some of the methods that we use in our research. This is not meant to be an exhaustive explanation but an overview of...

Characterization of laser Doppler vibrometers using acousto-optic modulators

We have developed on a new approach to characterize the performance of a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV). The method uses two acousto-optic...

2021–2022 Baldrige Graphics

Baldrige Excellence Framework | Baldrige Excellence Framework (Education) | Baldrige Excellence Framework (Health Care) Framework Overview...

A photon is absorbed, creating an electron–hole pair (carrier pair).

Light Fantastic: Counting Single Photons at Unprecedented Rates

April 12, 2021

In high-end 21 st century communications, information travels in the form of a stream of light pulses typically traveling through fiber optic cables. Each pulse...

New Director Appointed at the Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana

April 7, 2021

Dayna Blanchard, a longtime leader with nearly two decades of experience with the MEP Center, has been named as the next director of the Manufacturing Extension...

Call for Proposals: NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference

April 14, 2021

CALL FOR PROPOSALS is open now through June 18 “Broadening the Path to Cybersecurity Careers Through K12 Education” We encourage proposals from a diverse array...

Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity

Cold Neutron Imaging Instrument

The Cold Neutron Imaging Instrument (CNII) was designed to be a flexible space to test, develop, and employ novel neutron imaging methods to realize different

Steering Committee

Inaugural Space Cybersecurity Symposium I - May 5, 2021 (Past Event) Virtual Event Diane Howard, Chair, DOC, OSC Dr. Diane Howard is Chief...

Speaker Bios

Inaugural Space Cybersecurity Symposium I - May 5, 2021 (Past Event) Virtual Event Kevin Coggins Joyce Corell William Eshagh John Galer...

Applied: Photon Assisted Neutron Detector (PhAND)

Neutron detectors based on UV scintillations in xenon gas are under development for a variety of applications. The scintillations are produced with high

Normal incidence Diffuse Optical Scatter Instrument (NDOSI)

Summary The Normal incidence Diffuse Optical Scatter Instrument (NDOSI) is a new facility for measuring the hemispherical reflectance and transmittance of

New Research Could Help Manufacturers Avoid 3D-Printing Pitfall

May 19, 2021

A research team has found that a method commonly used to skirt one of metal 3D printing’s biggest problems may be far from a silver bullet. For manufacturers...

Fixed Point Development: Non-Metals

We are developing new fixed points and new maintenance systems for use with Standard Platinum Resistance Thermometers (SPRTs) below the triple point of water

2021 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal - Michael Moldover

For establishing spherical acoustic resonators as the foundation of the kelvin in the International System of Units.

2014 - Judson C. French Award---Jodie G. Pope and John Wright

For providing the hydrogen flow measurement and standards infrastructure to enable the broad commercialization of hydrogen-fueled vehicles.

Man at the door of factory applying alcohol to the hands of the workers arriving to work

Gearing Up: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Center Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 7, 2021

On January 29, 2021, the Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced a new report, Gearing Up: MEP...

Temperature Sensitivity of Liquid Flow Meters

Currently it is desirable to calibrate mass flow meters in water at room temperature and use the meters to measure cryogens such as liquified natural gas (LNG)

2020 ASME Fellow - John D. Wright

For advancing practical, low uncertainty flow measurements, and ensuring the reliability of the US and international flow measurement infrastructure, For building primary standards of the lowest uncertainty and using them to advance flow meter theory...