The original of the e-mail below went to: "Butcher, Kenneth S."<[email protected]>
I consider Ken Butcher as a close friend from many times conversing with him at meetings of the National Conference on W&M in past years. I don't know why my e-mail processor (or the USMA processor?) substituted USMA for Ken's name as the "To:" addressee and deleted Ken's name entirely? EAM ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:25:37 -0500 (CDT) >From: <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:50069] NIST, NSF, and SI in STEM Education >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >Cc: "Hockert, Carol" <[email protected]>, "Gentry, Elizabeth" ><[email protected]>, "Sefcik, David" <[email protected]>, >"Warfield, Lisa" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > >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 >
