Metrology for Newbs: Entering the Community, Not Just the Career

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by Joseph Rindone

Most people don’t choose metrology, at least not at first. They arrive through necessity. A technician is handed an instrument and told to calibrate it. An engineer is tasked with verifying measurements. A scientist assumes the numbers coming off their equipment are inherently trustworthy. Somewhere along the way, they realize there is an entire discipline behind what they are doing, but by then, they are already in it. That is where the problem begins.

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