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Standards Education Resources
Trainings & Webinars on Standards

Standards Education Resources

American Nuclear Society (ANS) Standards Resources
provides a historical overview of ANS standards containing articles on many topics, including the standards development process, the life of a ANS standard, and examples of ANS standards usage.
ASME - About Standards and Certification
provides information on the history of ASME codes and standards, the benefits of standards, and the standards development process.
ASTM International - Students & Professors
includes a voice-over learning module series on introductory standards topics and a professor's toolkit consisting of learning videos, handouts, case studies, and standardization related articles.
IEEE Standards University
includes a self-paced standards MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), short case studies from professors on using standards in the classroom, webinars, videos, presentations, and articles.
Intellectual Property (IP) Shield Standards Education
provides, for free, four short video case studies relating standards to on-the-job scenarios and a self-paced, online course (60 minutes) relating standards to real-world uses in STEM and also offer fee-based online standards education courses.
ISO Consumers and Standards: Partnership for a Better World Learning Module
provides a free, read-through learning module that includes standards basics (e.g., what are standards and how do they help society?), national and international standards development, the ISO standards system, benefits of standards to consumers, and consumer participation in the ISO standards process with self-assessment review questions.
NIST Standards Services Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program Awardees
The curricular materials developed through this program are freely available and can be accessed through the links provided in this resource, or by contacting the award recipients in cases where links are not made available.
Northwestern Standards Management - Strategic Standards Management
provides standards teaching resources with a primary focus on business topics, such as innovation, supply chain, smart systems, and sustainability including example syllabi, case studies, videos, role-playing exercises, PowerPoint presentations, instructor scripts, handouts, articles, and discussion questions.
University of Pittsburgh Information Technology Standards Education Resources
includes eleven learning modules covering a variety of topics providing introduction to standards and standardization, security standards, core web standards, standards for big data and data mining, and cellular telephony and wireless network standards.

Source:

M. Phillips and S. Huber, “Standards Resources for Engineering and Technology.,” ISTL, no. 87, Sep. 2017, doi: 10.29173/istl1711.

Trainings & Webinars on Standards

ANSI TRAINING COURSE: An intoduction to Standards: Why, Where, and How are they developed
Get a brief overview of standards and learn about the American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) roles in coordinating and facilitating the standardization process in ANSI's online course module: An Introduction to Standards: Why, where, and how are they developed. Updated in 2021, the 35-minute complimentary course provides a broad overview of the organizations and experts involved in standards development.
IEEE Standards University
Provides E-Magazine, Game, Videos, Courses, and Workshops
Incorporation Standards into Curricula
In pursuit of its commitment to implementation of the United States Standards Strategy, ANSI’s University Outreach program works to help bring information on globally recognized and adopted standards into relevant higher-education courses.
The Importance of Standards Education & Training
BUILDING A STANDARDS WORKFORCE FOR TOMORROW
ANSI’s education programs and resources raise awareness of the importance of standards and conformity assessment to students, academia, and the public, and provide engagement opportunities for the next generation of standardization participants.
Standards Education: An Introduction (Video)
Bring a virtual IEEE guest lecturer into the classroom with this 15-minute video, the first in 3-part series to deliver the basics about standards and standardization to undergraduates.
Topics in this video include: history of standardization, basic concepts of standardization, definition of a standard, major types of standards, benefits of standardization
Using Standards in Engineering Education
WEBINAR: Practical tips for teaching Standards for professors
Tips for Professors: Teaching Standards in the Classroom
by IEEE Standards University
StandardsLearn.org Portal
contains self-paced tutorials for students and professionals on topics such as an introduction to standards, the history of standards, and the U.S. standards system.