Center for Nondestructive Evaluation

We are excited to announce our 2024 webinar list has been finalized. To see the list of webinars click here.

Dr. Reza Zoughi (CNDE Director), Mr. Dan Barnard, and Mr. Brady Engle (CNDE Research Scientists) attended the ASNT 2024 Engage Fall Conference and Tradeshow in Las Vegas on October 21-24. This year, for the first time, CNDE had a booth at the tradeshow showcasing CNDE and ISU’s educational and research activities related to nondestructive evaluation…

Anna Case, a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, will be awarded her Ph.D. degree during the December 2024 commencement ceremony.  In October 2024, Dr. Case defended her dissertation, “Millimeter Wave Evaluation of Thin Coatings.” Dr. Case was the recipient of the O.D. and O.U. Trapp Graduate Fellowship in CNDE from 2020-2023. She submitted/published…

Rick Lopez, NDT Competency Lead for John Deere, recently presented at the Central Iowa chapter’s October meeting, attracting a robust audience of 26 attendees, including many undergraduate students. His talk, titled “Heavy Off-Road Industrial NDT Applications,” provided a comprehensive overview of the diverse inspection methods employed by manufacturers in the agriculture, construction, road building, and turf…

The American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Iowa Section achieved a Bronze level President’s Award for the 2023-2024 year. The award was last won in the 2021-2022 program year.  “The President’s Award program recognizes ASNT sections for outstanding section management performance. The program serves as a roadmap for successful section operation by allowing sections to…

Dr. Tayeb Al Qaseer, Dr. Reza Zoughi, and Dr. Matt Dvorsky recently received a U.S. Patent No. 12,061,254, “Microwave Imaging Using a Radially-Polarized Probe.”

CNDE welcomes Dr. Junzhen Wang as our newest Research Scientist.  To read more about Dr. Wang’s research specialties, click here.

Farzaneh Ahmadi, a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) department, is the recipient of the Research Excellence Award presented by ISU’s Graduate College.  This award is in recognition of her outstanding research accomplishments in a graduate program.  Her research focus involves developing In-line nondestructive evaluation methods for polymer- and metal-based additive manufacturing (AM) processes…

Featured Researcher Name: Stephen Holland How long have you been at CNDE? Since 2002 Area(s) of expertise: Thermography, ultrasound, NDE data integration and digital twin Who or what inspired you to pursue your career in NDE? I stumbled across laser ultrasonics as a student intern at Sandia Labs because it was a more interesting topic than…

Learn more about one of CNDE’s PhD Students, Henry Moldenhauer

Name: Mingyang Lu How long have you been at CNDE?  I began at CNDE in April 2023. Area(s) of expertise:  Electromagnetic eddy current experiments and computational modeling. Who or what inspired you to pursue your career in NDE?  I had an interest in electromagnetics as an undergraduate (before 2014) electrical and electronic major at the…

CNDE hosted its Spring 2024 Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting on April 15-17. CNDE researchers presented updates on five research projects that started in August 2023.  Board members reviewed the project presentations and gave feedback on each project. Also presented were nine proposals from CNDE researchers on various topics selected by our members for potential…

CNDE Director Dr. Reza Zoughi is the subject of SCOPE AT WORK profile in the April 2024 ASNT Materials Evaluation edition.  Click here to read more.

CNDE participated in this year’s 2024 State Science & Technology Fair of Iowa on April 4 and 5.  This two-day fair, organized by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, was for students in grades 6 – 12 and provided a space to showcase their research projects.  Students also got the chance to meet with professionals…

The American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Iowa section hosted a technical talk on Thursday, April 4th. Six members of the Ames Fire Department spoke about thermography applications in firefighting, including somewhat recent cases involving the detection of faulty wiring and the detection of corn syrup and propane leaks after a train derailment. Twenty students…