Strether Smith has over forty years experience in experimental mechanics, experimental and analytical structural-dynamic analysis, and the development of high-performance data acquisition/analysis systems.
Mr. Smith is the owner and operator of Structural/Signal Analysis Consultants, a consulting company advising the data acquisition, computer, aerospace, and electric utility industries in computer techniques, data acquisition techniques, and the experimental and theoretical analysis of structural behavior.
Previously, he was the Chief Scientist for DSPCon, Inc. In that role he directed the design and development of, and wrote the data analysis software for, the PIRANHA family of large-scale data acquisition/analysis systems.
Formerly Mr. Smith was the Supervisor of the Computer Aided Testing Systems (CATS) Group at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. At Lockheed he was the architect and development leader of the HSDAAS family of very-high-performance data acquisition/analysis systems that included the first, continuous-recording, multi-million-sample-per-second machines built.
He received his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and his Master's and Engineer's Degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford. He is the author of more than seventy publications in the areas of Experimental Mechanics and Computer Aided Testing Techniques. He is a Contributing Editor for Sound and Vibration Magazine, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Sensors Magazine and lectures at the Sensors Expo meetings.
He has taught data acquisition, digital signal analysis, and vibration short courses for the Technology Training, Inc. since 1991.
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