Name

Dale E. Chimenti

Contact Information

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
125 Applied Sciences Complex II
1915 Scholl Road
Ames, IA  50011-3042
515-294-5021
515-294-7771 FAX
chimenti@cnde.iastate.edu

CNDE Responsibilities

Dale Chimenti holds joint positions of senior scientist in the NDE Center and Professor in Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Chimenti earned the Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics at Cornell University and a BA (Magna cum Laude) from Cornell College. He has done research on transport properties of metals, and has worked for two years on an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Tuebingen, Germany investigating current-induced resistance in superconductors. At the Air Force Materials Lab in Dayton, Dr. Chimenti performed in-house research and managed the Air Force’s Advanced NDE Technology Program for eight years. He also chaired the international TTCP (DoD) Panel on NDE from 1986 to 1989. In 1989 he became Research Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for NDE at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1993 he moved to Iowa State. Dr. Chimenti has published over 75 journal articles in the research literature and serves as co-editor of the Review of Progress in QNDE, now in its 27th edition. Since 1996, he has been editor-in-chief of NDT&E International and was an associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America for six years. He is a member of the American Academy of Mechanics and a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. Dr Chimenti was awarded the 2007 David R Boylan Emminent Faculty Research Award by the Iowa State Univ College of Engineering.

(Updated 6/25/2007)