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About
Pete Stein
who developed this Unified Approach to the engineering of measurement
systems
Background. B.Sc., B.Sc., and M.Sc., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) • Founder of Stein
Engineering Services, Inc., in 1950 • Served for four
years as Group Leader, Instrumentation Engineering, at a small-gas-turbine
manufacturer in Phoenix, Arizona • Responsible for
planning measurement systems, selecting transducers and instrumentation,
organizing test procedures, and harvesting provably valid data • Soon realized that his otherwise excellent education had
not prepared him for these tasks.
Career as an Educator. Devoted his career to developing his Unified Approach to the engineering of measurement
systems • Affiliated with universities for 23
years, 14 of them as full professor of engineering at Arizona State University
(ASU) • Visiting professor not only of
mechanical engineering (Stanford University), but also of electrical
engineering (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany), and of civil
engineering (Technical University of Denmark).
Service. Founding member of the Western Regional
Strain Gage Committee •
Editor-publisher of the journal Strain
Gage Readings (1956–1964),
devoted to experimental stress analysis • Past delegate
and board member of the National Conference of Standards Laboratories (24
years) • Served on the National Academy of
Sciences Evaluation Panels of the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) for
their Mechanics Division, Electronic Technology Division, and for the Center of
Mechanical Engineering & Process Technology.
Honors and Awards. Senior Member of IEEE • Fellow of the Instrument Society of America (ISA) • Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) • SEM's Frocht Educator Award (twice) • ISA's Eckman Educator Award •
ASU Faculty Achievement Award • SEM Tatnall
Award for Service to the Society • Life-time
Achievement Award, SAVIAC (Shock and Vibration Information and Analysis Center)
• Life-time Achievement Award, Range
Commanders Council, Telemetry Group Transducer Workshops.