Name

Mike Garton

Contact Information

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
223 Applied Sciences Complex II
1915 Scholl Road
Ames, IA  50011-3042
515-294-1429
515-294-7771 FAX
mike@iastate.edu

CNDE Responsibilities

Mike Garton is a software developer and researcher for the Center for NDE.  Mike received his B.S. in Engineering Operations from Iowa State University and joined the Center full time in 1992.  Mike added a M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State in 1997.  The title of his thesis was "Refining Automated Ultrasonic Inspections with Simulation Models".  Mike has developed what we believe to be the most powerful ultrasound ray-tracing software in existence.  Also, he is the primary developer for the UTSIM, ECSIM, and MAGSIM software packages.  Besides developing software, Mike has been applying ultrasonic models to problems involving complex geometries.