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NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program | NIST https://www. nist.
gov/standardsgov/nist-standards-coordination-office-curricula-development-cooperative-agreement-program NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program Enriching college curricula to raise awareness of the role of standards and standardization in science, technology, engineering, math, law, public policy, business, and other related or multi-disciplinary fields.
To learn more about the prior awards, please see NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program: Awardees. The Standards Coordination Office (SCO) Standards Services introduced the “Education Challenge Grants” program in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012.
The program began with a budget of $150,000; six small grants were awarded to launch the program, supporting the development of new learning resources and course modules integrating standards into the formal curriculum in business and engineering programs.
The following year, the program was changed from a grant program to a cooperative agreement program, allowing SCO to work more closely with award recipients and to provide greater support to strengthen education and learning about standards and standardization. In 2023, the name of the program became the SCO Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program.
The number of awards given fluctuates each year based on various factors such as the number of proposals received and funding available. The evaluation criteria have evolved as NIST continues to improve the program each year, but the essential goal has remained the same—support for standards education at US colleges and universities.
Applicants are evaluated on their ability to meet criteria in four major categories: Project Approach and Project Execution Plan; Communication and Dissemination Plan; Qualifications and Experience of Key Personnel; and NIST Awardee Case Western Reserve University Seeks Collaborators for Case Studies CWRU’s Case School of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Kelvin Smith Library have completed their 2021 NIST SCO CD CAP project.
The goal of the project was to develop standards education modules centered on case studies involving quality systems, biocompatibility, and software development for medical devices.
They have developed lesson plans, tutorials, videos, homework assignments, and four case studies, including a moot court exercise on product liability that can be integrated into introductory biomedical engineering courses, senior design capstone courses, and graduate BioDesign curriculum. An impressive video of CWRU students’ moot court exercise can be viewed here , and the curriculum is available at https://osf. io/79s6z/ .
Looking ahead, PI’s Colin Drummond, Daniela Solomon, and Matthew Williams are actively seeking partners from standards development organizations and industry to co-develop additional case studies that will enhance the awareness, knowledge, and importance of industry standards. Please contact the PI’s directly for more information .
NIST Awardees Publish Book on Standards Information Literacy A new publication, Teaching and Collecting Technical Standards: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators , is available for free download or purchase from Purdue University Press.
Comprising 13 chapters, the handbook provides background information on standards and information on how to access standards, best practices for developing a useful collection of standards, and integrating standards into the curriculum. Additionally, it includes 14 case studies in many disciplines, including engineering, business, and law.
NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program (SCOCD CAP) awardees Margaret Philips, Purdue University , and Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University , are co-authors and co-editors of the book. Click here for more details.
Penn Program on Regulation launches a new curricular resource site that showcases the importance of voluntary codes and standards The University of Pennsylvania Law School and Penn Program on Regulation (PPR) received two awards under the NIST Standards Services Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program to develop course modules and case studies on legal and administrative issues related to codes and standards.
The curricula is now available on a new website, Codes-and-Standards. org , and can be used to integrate the study of codes and standards into core and elective courses in law schools and public policy graduate programs. The content is organized into five segments:(1 ) Introduction to Codes and Standards; (2) Standard Essential Patents; (3) Incorporation by Reference; (4) Risk Regulation; and (5) Federal Preemption.
All of the materials needed to support one or more class modules are provided. See additional News/Archives Standards , Documentary standards and Standards education NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program Created May 16, 2016, Updated March 27, 2026
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