**Meet the editor**

Assoc. Prof. Anil Akdogan was born in Antalya, Turkey in 1976. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 and her PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 from the Yildiz Technical University, Mechanical Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey. She has over 20 years of experience in teaching at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Yildiz

Technical University. She has lectured courses in "Measurement Techniques and Evaluation," "Quality in Industry," "Manufacturing Technologies" and "Measurement Techniques and Quality Management" for many years. She has published many manuscripts in international journals and presented proceedings at different international conferences about manufacturing technologies and industrial metrology.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Metrology in General 1**

Anil Akdogan

Chapter 3 **Variational Calibration 29** Michael Surdu

**Section 2 Metrological Approaches 51**

Andrea De Marchi

Eugene Charnukha

**Metrology Approach 53**

Chapter 5 **Optical Radiation Metrology and Uncertainty 75** Manal A. Haridy and Affia Aslam

Chapter 6 **A New Statistical Tool Focused on Metrological Tasks 93**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Metrology 3**

Chapter 2 **Methods for Evaluation of Measurement Uncertainty 9** Jailton Carreteiro Damasceno and Paulo R.G. Couto

Chapter 4 **Measuring 'Big G', the Newtonian Constant, with a Frequency**
