ASTM Launches Professor’s Tool Kit

Familiarity with standards can enhance a student’s knowledge and skills before entering the workplace. To improve technical standards education, ASTM International is offering an academic tool kit to help university professors incorporate information about technical standards into engineering and business curricula. The ASTM Professor’s Tool Kit contains informational tools to help educators promote awareness of standards in the classroom.

The kit includes supplies such as:

• scripted PowerPoint modules;
• sample syllabi and standards;
• videos on the value of standards;
• articles about standards education;
• standards case studies.