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Standardization Education: Developments and Progress

A few years ago, universities in Korea hardly spent any time on standards and standardization. Since a few years, however, standardization courses at Korean universities are attended by thousands of students per year. Korea’s stance is that standards shape the market for products and services. As it wants to increase its influence in the process of developing these standards and help its companies profit from standardization, it indeed understands the need for education. This chapter presents developments and progress in standardization education and builds on a previous paper in which we reported about the main results of an international workshop on standardization education we organized in 2007 (de Vries & Egyedi, 2007). In this chapter we use the same structure: