Quality Assured Measurement

Chapter1: Measurement challenge: specification and design.- Chapter2: Measurement method/system development.- Chapter3: Ensuring traceability.- Chapter4: Measurement.- Chapter5: Measurement report and presentation.- Chapter6: Decisions about product

Professor Leslie R. Pendrill has for much of his career since the mid 1980's been head of research at the National Metrology Institute of RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.  For decades, his research has focused on fundamental metrology, in particular optoelectronic, laser, length and mass measurement. More recently, he has developed new quality-assured measurement methods in which Man is the main actor, weighing the effects of measurement against the effects of product evaluations, including optimised measurement, uncertainty studies and the measurement of perception.  Professor Pendrill has been actively involved in several international metrology activities including being Chair of the European Association of National Metrology Institutes (EURAMET); the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics' Commission on Symbols, Units, Nomenclature, Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants; and the ISO/TC12 Quantities and units standards committee. He earnedhis PhD in Atomic Physics at the University of Reading, England and moved to Sweden after postdoctoral positions in Paris at the École normale supérieure, JILA Research Institute in Boulder CO, and Oxford University.