In this issue of the Educator's Corner we will be highlighting the Center for Precision Metrology (CPM) at UNC Charlotte. This prestigious dimensional Metrology program has been in operation for over 15 years, and has conducted research that ranges from industrial coordinate metrology applications to the design and build of a subatomic measuring machine. The Center for Precision Metrology (CPM) at UNC Charlotte grew from a small group of researchers in the late 1980's. Of these, Dr. Robert j. Hocken, the inaugural and current director of the center, first joined UNC Charlotte in 1988 from the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) - now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - in Gaithersburg, MD, and has guided the Center through a number of changes.
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