Smart Structures/NDE is an annual international symposium on smart structures and materials and nondestructive evaluation and health monitoring. It covers all aspects of the evolving fields of metarials, enabling technologies, sensor and actuator design and fabrication, micro-, nano- and bioelectronic devices, biomimetics, wireless sensors. Among visitors are engineers and researchers from government, military, academia and the commercial sector who want to discuss the current status and future directions of the industry.