Announcements and Features

The Education Challenge Grants are a special funding opportunity offered by the NIST Standards Services Group to strengthen education and learning about standards and standardization and support the integration of standards education into the undergraduate or graduate course curriculum in a meaningful way.

These small grants are intended to encourage programs of higher education in the fields of

• business
• engineering
• information technology and information science

to design, test, and evaluate specific innovations in the teaching methods, curricula, class assignments, student projects (including capstone projects).

The Second Quarter 2012 issue of the IEEE Standards Education e-Zine focuses on Standards Education in China.

• Read articles on educational efforts by the China National Institute of Standardization
• Learn of the developments in standards education for university students and young professionals
• Find out what the IEEE, ASTM and ANSI are up to in China
• Visit the section on Teaching about Standards for ideas about incorporating technical standards into the classroom
• Find up to date information on student grant opportunities for projects using standards.

TryStandards.org offers a way to find courses, materials, standards and other educational resources related to global technical standards in IEEE's fields of interest.

Search for courses at universities, explore profiles and educational offerings from standards developers, or search for standards.