A Global Network for Standards Education and Research William E. Kelly Department of Civil Engineering The Catholic University of America Washington, DC 20064

Education of Future Engineers Engineering standards are an integral part of engineering design education in the United States –See Criterion 4 of the ABET Engineering Criteria Global or international standards will be increasingly important in engineering work

Standards Education for Engineers Knowledge of standards in design field Appreciation of the role of regulatory standards that could affect products Appreciation of intellectual property law and technical barriers to trade issues.

Professional Societies and Standards Organizations Standards organizations and professional societies in the U.S. and internationally are upgrading their educational and outreach programs to provide educational opportunities for students and continuing education opportunities for professionals. Much of this is likely to be web based. See as an example the American National Institute's (ANSI) portal to online learning

Networking in Higher Education ANSI Committee on Education –To accomplish the U.S. National Standards Strategy Objective 11 promoting collaborations in higher education through outreach activities taking full advantage of IT –See e.g. ANSI’s education database European Commission academic educational- research network to promote standards education and research. –See e.g. EC’s Academic Network for Standardization

Activities Panels at Columbia University and the ANSI annual meeting in 2002 discussed ways to foster a broad cooperative international effort to include business, engineering, legal and policy aspects of standards and standardization in university programs in the U.S. and Europe. It was agreed that a first step is to develop an extended topical outline for standards education and mechanisms for sharing existing lecture materials.

Summary Work is underway to develop a topical outline and to make existing lecture materials from cooperating institutions available online. Faculty and students will have access to lectures by experts in Europe and the U.S. that could be used for self-study or by faculty members wanting one or more lectures in an existing course. As part of this effort, many lectures by outside experts in the Strategic Standardization course at Catholic University are now on the web and may be downloaded. See cfm cfm