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About the Authors







                  Stephen Beeby is a senior research fellow in the School of Electronics and Computer
                  Science at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He holds a B.Eng.
                  (Hons.) in mechanical engineering from the University of Portsmouth, United King-
                  dom, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Southampton.
                  Graham Ensell is a senior research fellow in the School of Electronics and Computer
                  Science at the University of Southampton. He received a B.Sc. in physics from Impe-
                  rial College at the University of London and a Ph.D. in medical physics from the
                  Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine at the University of London.

                  Michael Kraft is a lecturer in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the
                  University of Southampton. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. in electronics from Alexander von
                  Humboldt University in Erlangen, Germany, and a Ph.D. in electronics and control
                  from Coventry University in Coventry, United Kingdom.
                  Neil White is a professor of intelligent sensor systems in the School of Electronics
                  and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. A Fellow of the Institution
                  of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the Institute of Physics (IOP), as well as a Senior
                  Member of the IEEE, he earned a Ph.D. in sensors at the University of Southampton
                  and has been a full-time member of its academic staff since 1990. Professor White
                  has researched extensively in the area of sensor technology and materials, and his
                  work has been published in refereed journals and textbooks and has been presented
                  at international conferences.



            Contributing Authors

                  Barry Jones is an experienced teacher, practitioner, and researcher in the fields
                  of measurement, sensors, transducers and actuators, instrumentation, metrology,
                  automatic inspection, condition monitoring and preventative maintenance, and
                  nondestructive testing and evaluation. He is the author and editor of five books and
                  has published more than 280 papers and articles. Since 1986, he has been a profes-
                  sor of manufacturing metrology at Brunel University, in West London, England,
                  and the director of the Brunel Centre for Manufacturing Metrology. He received a
                  D.Sc. from the University of Manchester in 1985 and the Dr. Honoris Causa from
                  the Technical University of Sofia in 2001, and holds fellowships of five professional
                  bodies. He received a 1995 Metrology for World Class Manufacturing Award.

                  Christian G. J. Schabmueller received his first degree in microsystems technology
                  from the University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg, Germany. During his studies



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