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Session I (June 26, 2025) and Session II (July 17, 2025)
These two 2-hour sessions on Software Verification and Validation will focus on the use of Microsoft Excel in calibration laboratories and examine the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 requirements related to software. Part I will provide guidance and resources for ensuring software quality assurance, documenting evidence of verification and validation, and provide the tools for ongoing software evaluation. Successful completion will require a laboratory assignment and submission of post-work, with Part II including group review and feedback on student validations that are submitted.
At the end of this session, using notes and reference materials, you will be able to:
Laboratory personnel who have responsibilities for designing, validating, and/or improving the Excel spreadsheets used in their laboratory. For application to alternative software programs, contact the Instructor before registering. This course is available for non-weights and measures participants.
Completion includes completing pre-work assignment, full attendance and participation in the session activities and discussion, submission of course post-work assignments (notes, inventory, spreadsheet and its assessment) and participation in the follow up review session.
The current registration fee for these webinar sessions is $450. The payment deadline is COB Monday, June 9, 2025, and confirmed participants will receive payment instructions. Registration fees for State weights and measures metrologists are funded by NIST OWM.
The webinar will be a live stream, so participants must have a constant connection during the webinar (hard-wired is preferred).
1. Operating System (browser) configurations:
2. Mobile
3. International Phone Calls
4. Optional: If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before:
* Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat and Adobe Connect are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
Handouts and Slides; Good Laboratory Practices (GLP); GLP-15 Appendix A - Software Verification and Validation Form.
Micheal Hicks and Elizabeth Koncki
Email: elizabeth.koncki [at] nist.gov (elizabeth[dot]koncki[at]nist[dot]gov)
There are no prerequisites for this webinar. However, a working knowledge of Excel with applications in metrology is essential.
Pre-work must be completed prior to the first webinar.
1. Read: The GLP-15 for Software Quality Assurance.
2. Submit: Any related procedure(s) that are in place in your laboratory for ‘Software Quality Assurance’.
3. Submit: SOPs Reading Outline based on GLP-15 (URL is above) to instructor by COB June 2, 2025.
Pre-Work Deadline: Pre-work must be submitted to the instructors by COB Monday, June 2, 2025.
1. Submit the completed Form A (Software Inventory and Software Verification and Validation to the instructors by COB Thursday, July 10, 2025.
2. Submit a copy of the spreadsheet that is evaluated; include the procedure if it is not a NIST SOP.
Post-Work Deadline: Post-work must be submitted to the instructors by COB Thursday, July 10, 2025.
NIST Office of Weights and Measures
You will need a government-issued photo ID (e.g., passport or driver's license) when you check into the Visitors Center at the entrance of NIST and if bringing a vehicle onto the NIST campus, a vehicle registration card.
PLEASE NOTE: Effective July 21, 2014, under the REAL ID Act of 2005 (https://www.dhs.gov/real-id/real-id-frequently-asked-questions), agencies, including NIST, can only accept a state-issued driver's license or identification card for access to federal facilities if issued by states that are REAL ID compliant or have an extension. NIST currently accepts other forms of federally issued identification in lieu of a state-issued driver's license, such as a valid passport, passport card, DOD's Common Access Card (CAC), Veterans ID, Federal Agency HSPD-12 IDs, Military Dependents ID, Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC), and TSA Trusted Traveler ID. See Visitor Information for the latest information.