ERIC UDD is President of Blue Road Research, Inc., a company he founded in 1993 to develop fiber optic sensor and smart materials and structure technology. Prior to establishing Blue Road Research, he was Staff Senior Manager and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in the Advanced Products and Technology Division of McDonnell Douglas Aerospace. Mr. Udd has been responsible for fiber optic sensor and communication system design for a series of major research and development programs. While at McDonnell Douglas from 1977 to 1993, he acted as principal investigator and/or program manager on over 20 Department of Defense, commercial and internal research and development efforts on fiber optic gyros, acoustic sensors and accelerometers; seismic, strain, temperature and pressure sensors; as well as fiber optic communication systems and the area of fiber optic smart structures. He has been involved in the area of fiber optic smart structures since its inception and chaired the first international conference in this area (Fiber Optic Smart Structures and Skins, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 986, Boston, 1988). Mr. Udd has approximately 25 domestic and foreign patents issued or pending on fiber optic technology, has written and or presented over 50 papers, and has chaired 17 conferences on fiber optic sensor and smart structure technology. He is the editor of Fiber Optic Sensors: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists, also available from Wiley. Mr. Udd received his MSE in electro-optics and applied physics from Princeton University in 1978.