Peter K. Stein
Lecturer Emeritus
Prof. Stein has presented over 300 measurement engineering short courses
in 18 countries. He is best known for his "Unified Approach" to the engineering
of measurement systems. He is former instrumentation group leader Garrett
Turbine Engines, former Professor of Engineering, Arizona State University
(18 years), recipient of Frocht Educator Award (SEM), Eckman Educator
Award (ISA), and founding delegate Western Regional Strain Gage Committee.
His interest in physical measurements traces itself back to the MIT greats
in this field. He is widely published and referenced.
Prof. Stein possesses 50 years experience in instrumentation and measurements. He is founder of the "Unified Approach," a basic core of knowledge unique to the engineering of measurement systems. He is former instrumentation group leader Garrett Turbine Engines. Beginning in 1959, he created the Laboratory for Measurement Systems Engineering (Lf/MSE) at Arizona State University (ASU). He studied under Professors William M, Murray and Kurt S. Lion at MIT (both deceased). Dr. Murray was the founder of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now Society of Experimental Mechanics) and Dr. Lion established the first transducer-teaching laboratory in a university funded by the National Science Foundation.
Prof. Stein is a Senior Member IEEE and Fellow of ISA and SEM. He is a founding member of the Western Regional Strain Gage Committee, a member of the Old Guard of ASME, and was for 24 years a delegate and former Board Member of the National Conference of Standards Laboratories. He has served on the National Academy of Science Evaluation Panels of various divisions of the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) and is the U. S. delegate to four International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) technical committees. Prof. Stein has been editor/publisher of Strain Gage Readings, Visiting Professor at both U. S. and European universities, and Exchange Scientist between the U. S. and Polish National Academy of Sciences.
He has given his short course in measurements systems engineering over 300 times in 28 states in the U. S. and in 17 other countries on four continents. He is widely published and for 25 years published the Lf/MSE Newsletter which unified 960 students who passed through his measurements engineering courses at ASU.