If there is a common personality trait among metrologists, it is that we love to argue our point. In the true spirit of “everyone is entitled to my opinion,” lively debate is always present when you get more than one of us in a room together. It is probably why I personally ended up in this field. It is most certainly why I chose to participate on the CMSC Executive Committee.

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been invaluable to the U.S. measurement industry by developing calibration techniques for equipment used for large volume portable metrology. The United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has made a further commitment to address the lack of training in dimensional metrology. The NPL has developed a multilevel training program dedicated to this goal and is currently looking for a way to bring the training to North America.