Center for Nondestructive Evaluation

It is with great pleasure to announce the addition of GE Aerospace to the CNDE family as our newest member. We are very excited about the potential opportunities to engage and collaborate with our GE Aerospace colleagues.  Welcome!

CNDE Director, Dr. Reza Zoughi is the recipient of the 2023 American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture.  The purpose of the Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture is “to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the science of nondestructive testing. Such contributions may be made in the area of research, applications technology, management,…

Farzaneh Ahmadi will be presenting “Millimeter-Wave Near-Field Evaluations of Polylactic
Acid Filament Used in Polymer-Based Additive Manufacturing” on August 17, 2023.

Congratulations Pete Collins, Maria Jose Quintana, and Yuan Ji on being the recipients of the ASNT 2023 Outstanding Paper.

Learn more about one of CNDE’s PhD students, Trent Moritz.

Congratulations to Reza Zoughi on being chosen as a Featured Author on IEEE Explore!

Anna Case was the recipient of the Best Graduate Presentation Award given by the Graduate Seminar Committee in the ECpE Department.

CNDE’s largest Spring 2023 Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting was held on April 17-19.

It is with great pleasure to announce the addition of Cummins Inc. to the CNDE family as an Affiliate Member.

CNDE participated in the 2023 State Science + Technology Fair of Iowa in Ames. Lab tours and special awards were given to the top projects related to NDE.

On February 24, the Iowa Section of ASNT hosted a dinner for engineering students to learn about the NDE opportunities available at Iowa State University.

Hear about the success one NDE Minor student, Tyler Hall, had this past October during the Pizza with Students event. This event is part of the CNDE-Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) meeting held twice per year.

Congratulation to Katelyn Brinker who was awarded her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and named the recipient of the Research Excellence Award!

Congratulations to Trent Moritz, the first CNDE-GRA recipient! 

A dedication and plaque unveiling for Donald O. Thompson was recently held in the Applied Sciences Complex II lobby.

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) has just acquired a new terahertz (THz) continuous-wave (CW) spectrometer, manufactured by Bakman Technologies (www.bakmantechnologies.com). 

CNDE has acquired the Phased Array Company “Pioneer” System – a top of the line instrument for research in Ultrasonic NDE and more. 

Farzaneh Ahmadi, a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) Department who conducts her research at CNDE, received the Student Best paper Award – Runner Up (2nd Place) at the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Research Symposium. 

Anna Case, a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) Department who conducts her research at CNDE, received the Student Best paper Award – Runner Up (2nd  Place) at the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC).

Matthew Dvorsky, a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, who has been engaged in microwave and millimeter wave NDE research at CNDE since fall 2019 was awarded his Ph.D. degree.