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Five Universities Awarded Education Challenge Grants
by Patricia Harris December 07, 2012
Standards Services has awarded six Education Challenge Grants supporting the development of new learning resources and course modules integrating standards into the formal curriculum in Business and Engineering programs to five U.S. institutions of higher education. “By integrating standards and standardization into the formal curriculum and showing student how standards support innovation we will begin to introduce the next generation of engineers and business leaders to the importance of standardization to good design and the return on investment that standards provide,” said Gordon Gillerman, Chief of Standards Services.
The FY 2012 Education Challenge Grant recipients are:
Georgetown University
Georgetown University will develop a modular, online multi-disciplinary and multi-purpose standards curriculum for graduate and undergraduate students.
PI: Linda Garcia
Michigan State University
To develop a module for strategic standards education that can serve as a model for a comprehensive standards curriculum plan. As part of this effort MSU will identify sources of online and print materials that can be used in an introductory course on standards and standardization and identify gaps in resources to support a standards curriculum.
PI: Paul B. Thompson
Northwestern University, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
The Center for Technology and Innovation Management will develop, test, and refine various instructional materials, including course modules, exercises, simulations and model syllabi to support the introduction of standards and standardization into undergraduate and graduate Business and Engineering education.
PI: Michael Radnor
San Jose State University Research Foundation
A set of useful course materials on standards and standardization will be developed that can be easily integrated into existing course curriculum supporting business systems education and policy; the materials will include case studies, supplemental materials, student study and discussion questions, and teaching notes to guide faculty.
PI: Stephen Kwan
Standards Engineering Society and Purdue University
SES, partnering with Purdue University, will implement a pilot project to introduce an e-learning series of self-paced courses into the STEM (Science-Technology-Mathematics-Engineering) curriculum at Purdue; the e-learning series will include related case studies and will utilize the Standards Aware learning modules.
PI: Diane C. Thompson (Standards Engineering Society); Bruce A. Harding (Purdue University)
Standards Engineering Society and Purdue University
SES and Purdue University will create a new course in the Standards Aware e-learning series focusing on how STEM (Science-Technology-Mathematics-Engineering) disciplines use and rely on standards in a variety of real-world applications. STEM students at Purdue University will test and evaluate this course.
PI: Diane C. Thompson (Standards Engineering Society); Bruce A. Harding (Purdue University)
For details on the FY2013 Program, contact Erik Puskar at 301-975-8619, erik.puskar@nist.gov.
The announcement of the FY13 program, including proposal deadlines, is expected to be released in early 2013.