Engineering Laboratory

The Engineering Laboratory promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology for engineered systems in ways that enhance economic security and improve quality of life.

Moore Medical Center in Oklahoma following the Newcastle-Moore tornado, May 20, 2013.

NIST Awards $20 Million for Research Center to Help Communities Increase Resilience to Disaster

The Internet's Next Big Idea: Connecting People, Information, and Things

NIST Issues Final Joplin Tornado Report, Begins Effort to Improve Standards and Codes

News

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NIST Study Provides Voice for Evacuation Needs of Mobility Impaired

August 26, 2016

A fire alarm sounds. An announcement comes over the office public address system: "A fire has been reported in the...

Fort Collins, Colorado, Making Community Resilience a Reality Using NIST Guide

July 28, 2016

Guided in part by strategies and procedures developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for...

NIST Leads Federal Effort to Save Lives and Property from Windstorms

July 12, 2016

Congress recently designated the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be the lead agency for the...

Colorado County Adopts NIST Community Resilience Guidelines

June 29, 2016

The Boulder County Collaborative, a partnership of Boulder County, Colorado, communities formed in response to the...

Events

Timing Challenges in the Smart Grid Workshop Ad

IEEE/NIST Timing Challenges in the Smart Grid Workshop

October 25, 2016 to October 26, 2016

On October 26, NIST will host the IEEE-SA/NIST Timing Challenges in the Smart Grid Workshop. The result of the workshop is to enable stakeholders to delve...

Service Life Prediction of Polymeric Materials: Reaching New Heights

March 18, 2018 to March 24, 2018

This conference will establish the current state of service life prediction methodologies and produce the roadmap for future technical, standards, and...

Software

EVAP-COND

EVAP-COND is a software package that contains NIST's simulation models for a finned-tube evaporator and condenser. The "tube-by-tube" modeling scheme allows...

Factory Design and Improvement (FDI) Activity Model

Factory Design and Improvement (FDI) Activity Model is a reference activity model. It is a model of the activities and systems involved in setting up new...

Stokes Three-Dimensional Permeability Solver

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) A set of C and Fortran computer programs have been developed for computing the permeability of...

Expect

* Download Expect source from SourceForge * Download Expect binaries from ActiveState * Expect Homepage Expect is a tool for automating interactive...

Tools & Instruments

Robotics Test Facility

Located on the NIST Gaithersburg campus, the Robotics Test Facility – also known as Building 207 – is a laboratory for developing standard methods of measuring...

Photovoltaic Characterization Laboratory

NIST's PV characterization laboratory is used to measure the electrical performance and opto-electronic properties of solar cells and modules. This facility...

VOC emissions chambers

In order to support the development of test methods and reference materials for volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions from building materials and...

Indoor Air Quality Test House

In order to enable studies of a range of indoor air quality and ventilation issues, EL maintains a highly instrumented three-bedroom test house. Previous...

Contact

General Information

Howard H. Harary

howard.harary@nist.gov

(301) 975-5900
Fax:
(301) 975-4032
Tricia Faccone

patricia.faccone@nist.gov

(301) 975-5900
Fax:
(301) 975-4032