About the Editor

Kim Fowler has spent 27 years in the design, development, and project management of medical, military, and satellite equipment. He cofounded Stimsoft, a medical products company, in 1998 and sold it in 2003; he has also worked for JHU/APL and Ixthos. Kim currently consults in technical development for both commercial companies and government agencies; his focus is on engineering processes in designing and developing products and systems.

Kim is the Executive Vice President of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society for 2009. He spent 9 years as Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement magazine and writes its “Tried and True” column. Kim is adjunct professor for the Johns Hopkins University Engineering Professional Program and lectures internationally on systems engineering and developing real-time embedded systems. Kim has written Electronic Instrument Design: Architecting for the Life Cycle (New York: Oxford University Press; 1996) and What Every Engineer Should Know About Developing Real-Time Embedded Products (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 2008). He has published over 50 articles in engineering journals and proceedings, and has 17 patents—granted, pending, or disclosed.