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Ice Cream at the Rock
The Dairy Store was founded in 1913 and has since offered a variety of dairy products, including ice cream, cheese, and milk, produced by the university's Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.
“Down” for Maintenance and Upgrades
Through Tuesday, July 30th, we will upgrade this website. No 15:00 UTC Daily Colloquia until that time. Our Ann Arbor offices will remain open but this website will be a little janky from time to time. We will return to our normally scheduled open-door sessions at that time. We will provide accessible content related to summer recreation and athletic competition through the weekend; some of it coordinated with standardization issues relevant to the Summer Olympics.
An introduction to the IEC
Jack Sheldon, IEC Standardization Strategy Manager, presents the history and work of the IEC to students of the 'Master in Standardization, Social Regulation and Sustainable Development' of the Université de Genève. The 88th IEC General Meeting will be hosted 21-25 October in Edinburgh Scotland.
Why You Need Standards
"When we talk about standards in our personal lives, we might think about the quality we expect in things such as restaurants and first dates. But the standards that exist in science and technology have an even greater impact on our lives. Technical standards keep us safe, enable technology to advance, and help businesses succeed. They quietly make the modern world tick and prevent technological problems that you might not realize could even happen..."
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
2024 Student Paper Competition
Listen up faculty and students! This year's award cycle regarding Artificial Intelligence closed in June. The next revision cycle will begin again during Worlds Standards Week in November with paper deadline in June 2025 or thereabouts. For a head start, we link here are winning papers dating back to 2016
Current Issues and Recent Research
We continue to unpack the decisions made and priorities established at the May I&CPS meetings in Las Vegas; looking ahead to the October meetings in Phoenix. We are ramping up the reliability utility distribution reliability data collection project for the planned revision of IEEE 493 Recommended Practice for Industrial and Commercial Power System Design.
Excellence in Facilities Management
Recognized by his peers for decades, Richard Robben led the largest university facility operation in the United States. An initiative begun in 1993 to make education settlements Safer, Simpler, Lower-Cost and Longer-Lasing was expanded under his leadership and continues to this day.
2026 National Electrical Code
Link to the workspace set up for collaboration with the IEEE Industrial Applications and Power & Energy Society. Public response to the First Draft of 2026 revisions will be received until August 28th. See our CALENDAR for the breakout sessions for examining transcripts and drafting recommendations.