PLENARY AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED FOR QNDE 2004
The 31st Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE will be held at the Colorado School of Mines from July 25-30, 2004. NDE students, researchers, developers, and industrial users should plan to attend, for the conference is primarily designed to benefit communication and transfer of knowledge between all parties. A comprehensive program is planned that consists of leading keynote and plenary speakers, organized contributed verbal session with opportunities for questions and discussion, and poster sessions. For the second year, a special student poster competition will be held.
The keynote talk, “Sonar Arrays and Array
Processing,” will be given by Prof. Arthur B. Baggeroer, a Ford Professor of
Engineering in the Department of Ocean Engineering and Electrical and Computer
Science at MIT. Professor Baggeroer will review some advances in sonar array
technology that played a role in winning the cold war, array applications to
medical practice, and discuss points of relevance of these advances with NDE.
Professor Baggeroer received a B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue in 1968 and his
Sc.D. from MIT in 1968. He has received numerous awards, and is a Fellow of
the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, and is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering.
Professor Vijay K. Varadan, of the
Pennsylvania State University, will present the first of the two plenary talks
that will emphasize two new NDE technologies. Under the provocative title,
“Wireless Nano- and Micro-Sensors, MEMS for Monitoring of Engineering
Structures and Neurological Disorders in Humans; Can We Get Smarter?” Varadan
will discuss recent and exciting advances in wireless technology that may help
revolutionize the MEMS industry. Based on advances in microstereo lithography
that result in 3D MEMS, he will discuss possibilities and applications of new
health monitoring approaches for engineering structures and neurological
disorders. Professor Varadan received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern
University in 1974 and has served at Cornell and Ohio State before joining
Penn State where he is currently a University Distinguished Professor of
Engineering Science and Electrical Engineering and Neurosurgery. He is
well-known for his many contributions including elastic, and microwave
interactions with materials and his earlier contributions to the T-matrix
methods.
Professor Daniel Mittleman will provide the
second plenary talk, “Imaging With Terahertz Waves.” This is an exciting new
technology that utilizes the 100-Gigahertz – 10 Terahertz (30 microns – 3mm)
window of the electromagnetic spectrum. This talk will focus on an
introduction to and overview of the rapidly developing field and a description
of a few of the unique imaging capabilities possible with this approach.
Professor Mittleman received a B.S. from MIT in 1988 and a Ph.D. from the
University of California-Berkeley in 1994 – both in physics. He joined the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University in 1996. He
is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society.
A full program of research papers that includes sessions organized in NDE specialties, contributed verbal sessions, and poster sessions has been prepared. Special sessions include: Nonlinear Acoustics, John Cantrell and Tom Yost; Terahertz NDE, Harry Ringermacher; NDE for Residual Stress, Peter Nagy and Jeremy Knopp; UT Phased Arrays, Bob Addison; 3D-POD, Ward Rummel; Composite Applications, Dave Hsu; Thermal Techniques, Xiaoyan Han; Benchmark Comparisons, Les Schmerr; Laser UT, Mark Dubois.
Contributed and poster sessions, including a student poster session, will provide additional coverage of progress in the development of all quantitative NDE technologies and their application to various system and materials problems. Advances in all the primary technologies are covered and materials range from homogeneous and isotropic materials such as fine-grained metals and ceramics to inhomogeneous and anisotropic materials such as cast metals and weldments and specially engineered materials such as composites. The poster sessions provide an excellent opportunity for one-on-one discussions between the audience and the authors.
Plans are near completion for a focused session that focuses on current and emerging topics of NDE interest and will feature a discussion of Structural Health Monitoring led by Dr. James C. Malas, Chief, NDE Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory. In addition to guest speakers to be announced, opportunities for audience participation in defining future directions will be provided.
The Review of Progress in QNDE is sponsored by QNDE Programs and hosted by the Center for NDE, a member of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology at Iowa State University, in cooperation with the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Ames Laboratory (USDOE), the Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Langley Research Center, the Air Force Research Laboratories, and the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers. Special thanks are due to Professor David Olson, Colorado School of Mines; Dr. Wes Cobb, Denver Research Institute, and Mr. Ward Rummel, D&W, for their local support of the conference.
