Guest Editorial: You Cannot Control What You Cannot Measure

Measurement science and technology, remains at the centre of the study and development of the world around us for man's benefit. Lord Kelvin once said that: “When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginnings of knowledge but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of Science.” Such scientific measurement extends man's inbuilt senses, it enables us to operate our modern industry, safeguards our health and improves our quality of life. This is also a well-established knowledge field in engineering and specifically electrical engineering, with the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society for example over 60 years old.