World Standards Day Paper Competition Winners

World Standards Day papers are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).  A free reader is available from Adobe.

2009

•  First place - Facilitating Environmental Stewardship by Denis Leonard(276 kb)
• Second place - Democracy, Standards, and Behaviors to Sustain Our Earth by Greg Monty (484 kb)

2008

• First place - Quality and Sustainability Standards Defining a Young Industry by Joseph Bocchiaro III (323 kb)
• Second place - Ethics and the Smart Exoskeleton by Jay J. Iorio (37 kb)

2007

• First place - Mitigating Global Climate Change through Equipment Standards by Elizabeth H. Kujan (152 kb)

2006

• First place - Industrial Legislatures: The American System of Standardization, by Andrew L. Russell (79 kb)

2005

There were no winning entries in 2005.

2004

• First place - Securely Connecting the World with Cyber Security Standards, by Alicia Clay and Michael D. Hogan  (238 kb)
• Second place - We Need Better Information Connections for Welding Manufacturing, by William Rippey  (173 kb)
• Third place - Making the Confidence Connection: Conformity Assessment System Design, by Gordon Gillerman  (64.4 kb)

2003

 There were no winning entries in 2003.

 2002

• First place - Standards During Times of Change: Aerospace Strategies for Keeping Standards and Business Linked, by Laura E. Hitchcock  (68.4 kb)
• Second place - New York State: Building a Case for Standards, by Robert C. Thompson  (66.9 kb)
• Third place - The Standards Distribution Market: Serving Customers Between "All" and "Nothing", by Andrew Bank  (40.4 kb)

2001

• First place - Recycled-Plastic Lumber Standards: From Waste Plastics to Markets for Plastic Lumber Bridges, by Dr. Prabhat Krishnaswamy and Richard Lampo  (156 kb)

2000

• First place - Microsoft Anti-Trust Litigation - The Case for Standards, by Ken Krechmer and Elaine Baskin  (30.6 kb)
• Second place - The Changing Standards World: Government Did It, Even Though They Didn't Mean To, by Stephen Oksala  (44.0 kb)
• Third place - Adoption of Uniform Standards in Testing Plastics for Global Competitiveness, by Dr. Ranganath K. Shastri  (51.7 kb)

1999

• First place - The Yin and Yang of Standards Development, by Stephen C. Lowell  (70.4 kb)
• Second place - What Price Speed?, by Albert L. Batik  (58.7 kb)
• Third place - Standards-Setters as Innovators, by Rae McQuade  (56.5 kb)

1998

• First place - The Myth of Free Standards: Giving Away the Farm, by Andrew Bank  (21.5 kb)
• Second place - The Principles of Open Standards, by Kenneth Krechmer  (47.1 kb)
• Third place - The Case For New Economic Models To Support Standardization Efforts, by Clifford Lynch  (28.7 kb)

1997

• First place - The Modern Day Archimedes: Using International Standards to Leverage World Markets, by Stephen C. Lowell  (168 kb)
• Second place - Standards: Today's Trade Barriers Are Tomorrow's Global Markets, by Andrew Grebe  (27.7 kb)