Standards Education

IEEE is committed to:

• promoting the importance of standards in meeting technical, economic, environmental, and societal challenges;
• disseminating learning materials on the application of standards in the design and development aspects of educational programs;
• actively promoting the integration of standards into academic programs;
• providing short courses about standards needed in the design and development phases of professional practice.

• Why standards education?: Discover why standards education is important.
• TryStandards: Global Standards Education & Standards Search: Find courses, standards and educational resources related to global technical standards.
• Standards Education eZine: A publication for those who learn, teach, use, deploy, develop and enjoy Standards!
• Tutorials: Free online learning modules providing information about how standards came about, how they are classified, how they impact future development, and how they benefit the economy.
• Case illustrations: Free online learning modules describing the application of standards to achieve a specific design objective.
• Student application papers: Apply for an IEEE Standard Education Grant to help with graduate and capstone design projects with an industry standards component, and publish the results describing the way specific standards were applied to a task and how they impacted the design process.
• Standards reference directory: Offers an alphabetical listing of standards development bodies and other associations supporting the teaching of standards in undergraduate engineering and engineering technology programs.
• Glossary: Explanations of terms and phrases in common use by standards' developers and users.
• Announcements: Information in upcoming events, articles, and papers about standards.
• Additional resources: A gateway to additional resources for standards information including other organizations, learning tools, and educational Web sites.