Strategic Standardization is a survey course intended for graduate students. The course is approved by the School of Engineering and the School of law. It is intended to provide graduate students with a broad understanding of the cross-functional and interdisciplinary issues associated with standards, the process of standardization and conformity assessment.
Standardization is a difficult concept to define.
Standardization is one of the most critical components associated with the development of the global economy and all of its individual parts. Standards influence the products we use, the foods we eat, how we communicate, our means of travel our modes of work and play, and many other activities. Standards may function to inform, to facilitate, to control, or to interconnect - frequently, a combination of such elements. They serve economic ends, enabling or catalyzing commercial transactions of all sorts. The course will provide an opportunity to study different types of institutions that make significant decisions concerning manufactured products or materials.