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Steve Arms is a great personification of the Vermont innovator.
I met Steve when we were both students at the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at UVM. As an
engineering student, Steve was always asking questions. He was interested in building safer ski bindings, which in turn
led him to try to figure out how to measure strain on knee ligaments.
A few years later, while developing knee sensor implants for his master's thesis, Steve founded MicroStrain Inc. in
Williston.
He says, "In the late '90s, as MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) sensors became increasingly available for
sensing other parameters, such as acceleration, angular rate and low-level magnetic fields, we employed them in concert
with microprocessors to produce smart sensors."
Today, MicroStrain makes tiny sensors that detect strain in a wide range of applications, from knee implants to
bridges, unmanned military vehicles to automobile engines. They're making a smarter and safer world.
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