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Sep 04, 2025
On July 31, the 2025 class of Washington Internship for Students in Engineering (WISE) program presented their final reports on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Over the last nine weeks, eleven interns sponsored by both ASTM International and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), conducted public policy research on various technical topics. Their work was presented to their peers, sponsoring society reps, government and academic stakeholders, as well as friends and family. The four ASTM-sponsored interns and their policy topics are as follows:
Ethan Andrews (chemical engineering student at Case Western Reserve University) – “Promoting and Incentivizing Safer Chemical Products.”
Shrika Paramasivam (mechanical engineering student at University of Texas – Austin) – “Scaling Polymer Additive Manufacturing for Sustainable Practices: Shaping Policies Towards a Circular Economy.”
Andrew D. Avila (electrical and electronics engineering student at California Polytechnic State University) – “Sustainable Wildfire Response and Development.”
Liam Cassidy mechanical engineering and economics student at Pennsylvania State University) – “Building Trust in Next-Generation Nuclear: Policy Recommendations for Nuclear Regulation."
ASTM International’s student chapter at the Central Philippine University (CPU) recently reported on its activities during the spring 2025 semester. The chapter actively participated in five subcommittee presentation series, designed to further understanding of ASTM standards and ASTM’s standardization process. Technical members of several committees participated in these presentations.
The report also noted how ASTM standards are applied in many of the laboratory activities and experiments that were part of student’s classes. These tests included tensile and elongation testing, vibration testing, dimensional testing, torque test and several others.
ASTM International offers a limited number of $500 grants to university students to help with student design projects that contain an ASTM International standards component. ASTM will post the results as a student standards application paper on ASTM.org.
Recognizing that students at some universities may need financial assistance in completing their graduate or senior capstone design projects and that the overall demonstration of the existence and understanding of industry standards and applicability to engineering is required, interested students should consider applying.
For the application, student(s) must submit an abstract summary describing the project that includes:
Summarizing the project goal.
Listing the ASTM standards that are being considered to achieve the project goal.
Writing a declaration of intention to submit an application paper for publication by ASTM International on completion of the project.
A statement of endorsement from a faculty mentor.
The deadline for project grant applications is Oct. 31. For more information visit go.astm.org/campus.
ASTM International staff and members are readily available to provide students and faculty with an overview of the world of consensus standards. These sessions are designed to expose future subject matter experts to the importance of standards, the development process, resources available to students, and ways to get involved with ASTM.
Lectures can be presented in person or remotely.
For more information about all academic outreach programs, visit www.astm.org/membership-participation/academic-outreach.
September / October 2025
