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Close-up of a stone in the NIST stone wall
No full textThe NIST stone wall was built using 2,352 stones from 47 US states and 320 from 16 foreign countries. The wall is approximately 12 m long, 4 m high, 0.6 m thick at the bottom, and 0.3 m at the top. The aim of the wall construction was to study the aging process of stones used in construction under outside weathering conditions
Janet B. Miller
No full textJANET B. MILLER
NBS/NIST: 1969-1981 and 1988-2007
INDUCTED: 2017
Birth: 5 January 1947, Bethesda, Maryland
EDUCATION:
Wake Forest University, BA (Psychology), 1969
CITATION:
For exceptional contributions in financial management and budget execution and formulation for NBS and NIST.
POSITIONS HELD AT NBS/NIST:
Administrative Intern, Personnel Division, Associate Director for Administration (ADA), 1969-1970
Budget Analyst, Budget Division, ADA, 1970-1976
Senior Budget Analyst, Financial Management Division, ADA, 1976-1977
Supervisory Budget Analyst, Budget Office, Associate Director for Programs, Budget, and Finance (ADPBF),
1977-1979
Special Assistant to the Budget Officer, Budget Office, ADPBF, 1979-1981
Budget Analyst/Lead Budget Analyst, Budget Office, Office of the Director (OD), 1988-1995
Group Leader, Formulation and Financial Management, Budget Office, OD, 1995-1997;
Budget Office, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), 1997-1998
Acting Budget Officer, Budget Office, CFO, 1998-1999
Group Leader, Formulation and Financial Management, Budget Division, Director for Administration and CFO,
1999-2004; Budget Division, OD, 2004-2007
SIGNIFICANCE OF WORK:
Ms. Miller worked closely with the NIST Director, senior management, and financial personnel across the organization to support the NIST mission by securing appropriated funding through the budget process and ensuring proper stewardship of agency resources. She played a critical financial management role during a period of significant growth in NIST programs, responsibilities, and appropriation accounts; increasing external requirements (CFO Act, GPRA, FFMIA, and subsequent legislation) and audit; frequent organizational and management changes; and unprecedented technological innovation, challenges (Y2K), and system conversions.
Her attention to detail and in-depth knowledge of NIST budget activities made her a reliable, respected expert among NIST colleagues and officials at the Department of Commerce, Office of Management and Budget, and Congressional Budget Office. She received recognition for automation efficiencies and increased accuracy in budget formulation and initiative pricing; documentation of NIST fiscal policy and procedures; crafting of the Management Discussion and Analysis for the end-of-year financial statements, part of a team effort that led to the Department’s first clean audit opinion in 1999; and significant contributions to the transition from the pre-2004 NIST Cost Accounting System to the Department-wide Commerce Administrative Management System.
HONORS:
NIST Bronze Medal (1995)
Certified Government Financial Manager (1996)
U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal (2000)
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association for Budget and Program Analysis
Association of Government Accountants
DoC Strategic Planning Task Forc
(Audio Part 1 of 2) Oral history interview of Willie E. May, January 31, 2017 / [persons present]: Drs. William Gadzuk, Curt Reimann, Harry Hertz, Byant Nelson, Laurie Locascio, Mike Rowe, and Hratch Semerjian
No full textDr. Willie E. May former NIST Director and former Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology discusses his career at NIST beginning in 1971 until his retirement in December 2016. Dr. May led research activities in chemical and biological measurement science prior to serving as associate director for laboratory programs and principal deputy to the NIST director
Impact Toughness Modification of NIST Low-Energy Charpy Verification Specimens for Testing at Room Temperature
No full textThe possibility for the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to certify Charpy reference specimens for testing at room temperature (21 �C � 1 �C) instead of _40 �C was investigated in a previous study, in which a slightly increased likelihood of specimen jamming was observed at the low-energy level (13 J to 20 J). Moreover, there is a concern that the higher impact toughness of low-energy verification specimens at room temperature would not allow the same Charpy machine features to be verified as in the case of low-temperature (_40 �C) tests, namely, the linear elastic behavior of the sample and the very high maximum forces (typically larger than 33 kN). In this paper, we report on the change in the mechanical properties (hardness and absorbed energy) of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) 4340 steel low-energy specimens that ensues from the modification of the temperature of the final tempering heat treatment. We established that, if low-energy verification specimens are tempered at 300 �C for 2 h and then air cooled, they exhibit equivalent impact toughness (13 J to 20 J) and postimpact behavior (specimen halves projected backward at high speed) at room temperature as compared to specimens currently on sale for testing at _40 �C. Their hardness is however increased to above 49 HRC on the Rockwell scale. The minimum hardness requirement for low-energy verification specimens, currently set at 44 HRC in NIST specifications, will have to be increased to 49 HRC
Liquid Chromatography Column Theory and Technology
No full textselectivity; stationary phase; modified surfaces; reversed-phase; normal-phase; core-shell columns(tutorial
