Name

Lester W. Schmerr, Jr., Associate Director

Contact Information

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
211A Applied Sciences Complex II
1915 Scholl Road
Ames, IA  50011-3042
515-294-9746
515-294-7771 FAX
lschmerr@cnde.iastate.edu

CNDE Responsibilities

Les Schmerr received a B.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and a Ph.D in Mechanics from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1970. Since 1970 he has been at Iowa State University where he is currently Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation. He is also the Permanent Secretary of the World Federation of NDE Centers. His research interests include ultrasonics, elastic wave propagation and scattering, and artificial intelligence. He has developed and taught Ultrasonics and Nondestructive Evaluation courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He is the author of Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation – A  Modeling Approach  which was published by Plenum Press in 1998. He is a member of IEEE, ASME, ASNT, and AIAA.

(Updated 10/27/2005)