Sensor technologies have experienced dramatic growth in recent years, making a significant impact on national security, health care, environmental improvement, energy management, food safety, construction monitoring, manufacturing and process control, and more. However, education on sensor technologies has not kept pace with this rapid development

Professor Winncy Y. Du (PE, ASME fellow) is the director of the Robotics, Sensor and Machine Intelligence Laboratory with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Jose State University, California, USA. She earned her Ph.D and second MS degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; her first MS from West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA; and her BS from Jilin University, China. She has worked as a journal editor, engineer, and researcher; taught over ten different undergraduate and graduate courses; published numerous papers; and contributed to the books Smart Sensors and Sensing Technology and Modern Sensors, Transducers and Sensor Networks.