ROBERT E. SHERMAN is President of Petrolab Company located in Latham (Albany), New York. Sherman is recipient of The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society's Molloy Award (1997) for Best Selling Publication (Analytical Instrumentation: Practical Guide for Instrumentation and Control) and the Fischer Environmental Award (2001) for his Continuous Emissions Monitor System (CEMS) work with Fluor/Duke.