Fiber Optic Smart Structures

About the editor

ERIC UDD is President of Blue Road Research, Inc., a company hefounded in 1993 to develop fiber optic sensor and smart materialsand structure technology. Prior to establishing Blue Road Research,he was Staff Senior Manager and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in theAdvanced Products and Technology Division of McDonnell DouglasAerospace. Mr. Udd has been responsible for fiber optic sensor andcommunication system design for a series of major research anddevelopment programs. While at McDonnell Douglas from 1977 to 1993,he acted as principal investigator and/or program manager on over20 Department of Defense, commercial and internal research anddevelopment efforts on fiber optic gyros, acoustic sensors andaccelerometers; seismic, strain, temperature and pressure sensors;as well as fiber optic communication systems and the area of fiberoptic smart structures. He has been involved in the area of fiberoptic smart structures since its inception and chaired the firstinternational conference in this area (Fiber Optic Smart Structuresand Skins, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 986, Boston, 1988). Mr. Udd hasapproximately 25 domestic and foreign patents issued or pending onfiber optic technology, has written and or presented over 50papers, and has chaired 17 conferences on fiber optic sensor andsmart structure technology. He is the editor of Fiber OpticSensors: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists, alsoavailable from Wiley. Mr. Udd received his MSE in electro-opticsand applied physics from Princeton University in 1978.