Legend to acronyms and abbreviations
Last revised: 3-25-97
ABET Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
AdCom Administrative Committee
APP All Periodicals Package
APS-DPB Americal Physical Society - Division of Physics of Beams
BoD Board of Directors
BoG Board of Governors
CANPS Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
CCIP Committee on Communications and Information Policy
CEAA Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities
COMAR Committee on Man and Radiation
CRADA (CRDA) Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CTAA Committee on Technology Accreditation Activities
DME Design and Manufacturing Engineering
EAB Educational Activities Board
EAC Engineering Accreditation Commission
EHS Environment, Health and Safety Committee
ESONE European Studies On Norms for Electronics
ExCom Executive Committee
FC Functional Committee
FCC Functional Committee Chair
FESAC Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee
FT Fusion Technology
- DIII-D Doublet III - 4th Iteration
- ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
- JET Joint European Torus
- TFTR Tritium Fusion Test Reactor
ICALEPCS International Conference on Acclerators and Large
Physics Control Systems
ICOPS International Conference on Plasma Sciences
IEC International Electro-Technical Committee
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEL Electronic Library
ITS Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee
JOLLY Journal on-line launch year
Laboratories and Organizations
- ANL Argonne National Laboratory
- BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
- CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
(European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
- DOD Department of Defense
- DOE Department of Energy
- EPA Environmental Protection Agency
- FAA Federal Aviation Administration
- FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
- LBNC Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- NAS National Academy of Science
- NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NSF National Science Foundation
- ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- PPPL Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- S&T Science and Technology
- SLAC Stanford Linear Accerlerator Center
MIC Medical Imaging Conference
N&A Nominations and Appointments
NCRPM National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NID Nuclear Instruments and Detectors
NIDCOM Nuclear Instruments and Detector Committee
NIM Nuclear Instrumentation Methods (original source of acronym)
NMIS Nuclear Medical Imaging Sciences
- CT Computed Tomography
- MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- MRS Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- NMISC Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science Council
- NMISTC Nuclear Medical Imaging Sciences Technical Committee
- PET Positron Emission Tomography
- SPECT Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
NPEC Nuclear Power Engineering
NPS Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
NPSS Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
NSREC Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference
NSS Nuclear Science Symposium
NTDC New Technology Direction Liason
OI Organizational Improvement
OpCom Operating Committee
PAC Particle Accelerator Conference
PACE Professional Activities Council for Engineers
PAST Particle Accelerator Science and Technology
POP Pre-Order Plan (selected conference proceedings)
POP+ Pre-Order Plan (additional proceedings)
PP Pulsed Power
PPC Pulsed Power Conference
PPST (PPS&T) Pulsed Power Science and Technology
PPSTC Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee
PSAC Plasma Science and Applications Committee
PUB Publications Board
R&D Research and Development
RAB Regional Activities Board
REC Radiation Effects Committee
- APS Aerospace Policy Committee
- CHERBS Conference on High-Energy Background Radiation in Space
- EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
- RADECS European Symposium on Radiation and Its Effects
on Components and Systems
- RESG Radiation Effects Steering Group
- RISC Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee
- SEV Single Event Upset
- SGEMP System Generated EMP
RIC Radiation Instrumentation and Control
RTCA Real-Time Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle & Plasma
S/C Society/Council
SAMIEEE Society Access to Membership Information in the IEEE
SFE Symposium on Fusion Engineering
SPARC Strategic Planning and Review Committee
SPC Strategic Planning Committee
STAIF Space Technology and Applications International Forum
TAB Technical Activities Board
TAC Technology Accreditation Commission
TC Technical Committee
TCC Technical Committee Chair
TMI Transactions on Medical Imaging
- EDICS Editors Information Classification Scheme
- EMBS Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- SPS Signal Processing Society
- UFFC Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
TNS Transactions on Nuclear Science
TPC Technology Policy Council
TPS Transactions on Plasma Science
USAB United States Activities Board