Dear Ken, The Essential Foundation of STEM Education is the International System of Units (SI) as promulgated by NIST SP 811.
Adoption of this Principle by the NSF depends on *direction* from NIST to do so. This "designation of authority" to the DoC (and to NIST) apparently remains from Executive Order 12770 of 1991. Who in NIST has the authority to "direct" the NSF to establish SI as the Essential Foundation of STEM Education? Eugene A. Mechtly (Emeritus) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [email protected] 217.688.2626
