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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, VOL. 61, NO. 5, MAY 2012
Special Issue on the 2011 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference
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HE 28th annual IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2 MTC) was held in Hangzhou, China, on 9–12 May 2011. The conference was attended by a total of 289 registered participants, including 89 postgraduate students and five undergraduate students. The technical program consisted of a series of scientific and technical sessions, covering all aspects of theory and practice of metrology, measurement technology, instrumentation, and related applications. Following the usual review process, approximately 350 papers from all over the world were organized into 50 oral presentation sessions and five poster sessions, and of those 350 papers, 137 of them included authors who were graduate or undergraduate students. The oral presentation sessions included seven special sessions, which were closely aligned with the I2 MTC 2011 conference theme—“Instrumentation and Measurement for Improving Quality of Life.” In particular, special sessions on Advanced Sensors and Instrumentation for Healthcare and on Advanced Measurement and Instrumentation for NDT&E and Structural Health Monitoring attracted overwhelming response from the community and were well attended at the conference. In summary, 138 authors submitted extended versions of their conference papers to this special issue. After a thorough review process, and as of mid-January 2012, 41 papers have been accepted, and another ten are in various stages of review.
Technical topics covered in this special issue, although wide ranging as reflected in part by the diversity of the papers, demonstrate recent developments in the field of instrumentation and measurement and possible approaches that may offer solutions to existing measurement and monitoring problems. We hope that this special issue provides a good reference point for the researchers and practitioners who are active in the field and will serve as a catalyst to trigger further worthwhile investigations. It has been a great pleasure for us to be the guest editors of the special issue on the IEEE I2 MTC 2011. We would like to offer our sincere thanks to the authors for their excellent contributions. We are grateful to the associate editors and reviewers, who devoted their time and energy on a voluntary basis and on a short timescale to ensure that all submissions were reviewed rigorously. The Past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE T RANSACTIONS ON I NSTRUMENTATION AND M EASURE MENT , Dr. Reza Zoughi, and the Transactions administrators, Ms. Reta Wehmeier and Ms. Cam Ingelin, are particularly acknowledged for giving us timely advice on guest-editing the papers.
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YONG YAN, Guest Editor RUTH DYER, Guest Editor
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Yong Yan (M’04–SM’04–F’11) received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in instrumentation and control engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in solid flow measurement and instrumentation from the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, U.K., in 1992. In 1988, he started his academic career as an Assistant Lecturer with Tsinghua University. In 1989, he joined the University of Teesside as a Research Assistant. During 1993–1996, after a short period of postdoctoral research, he worked initially as a Lecturer with the University of Teesside and, then, during 1996–2004, as a Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor, respectively, with the University of Greenwich, London, U.K. He is currently a Professor of electronic istrumentation; the Head of the Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems Research Group; and the Director of Research with the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. He is the author of 270 research papers in journals and conference proceedings, in addition to 12 research monographs. He was the Technical Program Co-Chair for I2 MTC 2011. Dr. Yan is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) [formerly Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)], the Institute of Physics, and the Institute of Measurement and Control. In recognition of his contributions in pulverised fuel flow metering and flame imaging, he was the recipient of the Achievement Medal by the IEE in 2003, the Engineering Innovation Prize by the IET in 2006, and the Rushlight Commendation Award in 2009. Ruth Dyer (M’86–SM’95–F’08) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in biochemistry from Kansas State University, Manhattan, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in 1980. She is currently the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Kansas State University. She coordinates activities and initiatives related to university academic policies and curricular and program development. She oversees the Office of Academic Personnel, the Dual Career Program, and the K-State Advancement of Women in Science and Engineering Office. She is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University. Dr. Dyer has served as the Vice President for Membership and the Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), and is currently serving as the Vice President for Finance of the IMS. She has served for a number of years on the Board of Directors for the International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2 MTC), and she was the General Program Co-Chair for I2 MTC 2010 and the Technical Program Co-Chair for I2 MTC 2011. She was the recipient of the 2011 IEEE IMS Distinguished Service Award. She was one of seven individuals from across the nation to be named a Fellow of the Association of Women in Sciences in 2006. She also was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow in 2003–2004 and served during that year at The Ohio State University, Columbus.
