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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Office of Weights and Measures

NIST Associates for OWM

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NIST Associates

Lisa Corn OWM Associate — Lisa Corn, Metrology Instructor, Laboratory Metrology Program

Chuck Ehrlich, Program Leader, International Legal Metrology — Chuck Ehrlich, Physicist, OWM HQ

Ombati Wilson Nyang’au, Electrical Engineer, Laboratory Metrology and International Legal Metrology Programs

Mark Ruefenacht Head Shot — Mark Ruefenacht, Metrology Instructor, Laboratory Metrology Program

Staff photo of Scott Simmons — Scott Simmons, Training Specialist, OWM HQ

Kate Smetana, Metrology Instructor, Laboratory Metrology Program

Jose Torres-Ferrer, OWM Metrology Instructor — Jose Torres-Ferrer, Metrology Instructor, Laboratory Metrology Program

Photo of Yoon Thwel — Thwel Yoon, Spring 2025 Montgomery College Intern, Metric (SI) Program

Previous NIST Associates and Student Interns

Maryanne Amanze, Metric (SI) Spring 2024 Montgomery College Intern — Maryanne Amanze, Spring 2024 Montgomery College Intern, Metric (SI) Program

Photo of OWM Intern Lloyd Bekele — Lloyd Bekele, Spring 2023 Montgomery College Intern, Metric (SI) Program

María Peñahora Cañeque Simón — María Peñahora Cañeque Simón, International Legal Metrology Program

Photo of Cyra Golwalla — Cyra Golwalla, Administrative Assistant and Salesforce Expert

nelka Jagoda, Metric (SI) Spring 2024 Montgomery College Intern — Dinelka Jagoda, 2024 SURF Fellow, Metric (SI) Program

Photo of OWM Intern Arghavan (Angie) Tehrani — Arghavan (Angie) Tehrani, 2023 Montgomery College Intern, Metric (SI)

Ben Tran OWM 2023 SURF Student — Benjamin Tran, 2023 SURF Fellow, Metric (SI) Program

Travis "TJ" White, 2023 SURF Fellow, Laboratory Metrology Program

Metrology, Metric and Weights and measures

Contacts

General Information - OWM

owm@nist.gov

Created March 30, 2022, Updated March 13, 2025