(JETS: Alexandria, VA) -- Tackling one of the world’s most pressing problems—the global water shortage—from an engineering perspective, students from The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, took the top national honor for the 11-/12-grade level, while those from the Harker School in San Jose,

(Nikon Metrology: Leuven, Belgium) -- At the international 2010 Control trade fair for quality assurance, Nikon Metrology introduced the all-digital LC60Dx/LC50Cx scanners.

At the time of this writing, inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are at work monitoring seafood safety in areas affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Finger-pointing continues and there is now talk on the news of criminal prosecutions.

(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- Pharma Tech Industries (PTI), a contract manufacturer and packer of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and personal care products, is focused on exceeding customers’ expectations.

The client is a small independent company that just made a $600 million bet on a new deepwater floating platform to develop a Gulf of Mexico field, which bigger companies considered too small to develop themselves.

(U.S. Foodservice: Rosemont, IL) -- U.S.

(Productivity Press: NY) -- One size does not fit all. While Jack Welch is very intelligent, he doesn’t know other businesses as well as those who work in them every day.

(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- Few people with knowledge of business—small companies and large international organizations alike—would disagree that an organization is only as good as its top management team: its board of directors.

(NACMA) -- The North American Coordinate Metrology Association (NACMA) invites you to participate in the NACMA 2010 Annual Workshop and Conference, one of the largest annual meetings for dimensional metrologists, to be held Aug. 4–6. The host and location for this event is:

(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Fluke Corp., a global leader in calibration technology, has introduced Fluke Manual MET/CAL software—an application for calibration professionals who need to collect, store, and report calibration data consistently and efficiently.