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ASNT Section of Iowa December Technical Talk
The ASNT Local Iowa Section hosted guest speaker Dustin Davis from RDI Technologies during their December 2024 meeting in Ames. Dustin presented to 11 professional and student attendees, who enjoyed complimentary pizza and soda, and provided an engaging overview of RDI’s proprietary Motion Amplification inspection technique. He explained how their…

December 13, 2024
ASNT Iowa Section mentioned in the December 2024 ASNT Materials Evaluation Edition
The ASNT Iowa Section hosted Rick Lopez, NDT Compentcy Lead at John Deere and a CNDE board member at their October meeting. Mr. Lopez gave a presentation to the group titled “Heavy Off-Road Industrial NDT Application.” To read the article, click here.

December 4, 2024
CNDE Featured Researcher/Collaborator: John Aldrin
Name: John C. Aldrin How long have you been at CNDE or collaborating with? My earliest collaborations involved working with Bruce Thompson on model-assisted probability of detection (MAPOD) evaluation working group, going back to 2001. Bruce was a great leader, while also so gracious with his time and experience. …

December 2, 2024
ASNT Local Section of Iowa October Technical Talk
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,…

October 17, 2024
ASNT Iowa Section Achieved a Bronze level President’s Award
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…

September 19, 2024
CNDE Welcomes Dr. Junzhen Wang
CNDE welcomes Dr. Junzhen Wang as our newest Research Scientist. To read more about Dr. Wang’s research specialties, click here.

September 16, 2024
Farzaneh Ahmadi received prestigious Research Excellence Award from the Graduate College
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-…

July 22, 2024
CNDE Featured Researcher: Stephen Holland
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…

July 18, 2024
CNDE Spotlight: Henry Moldenhauer
Learn more about one of CNDE's PhD Students, Henry Moldenhauer

July 18, 2024
CNDE Student Spotlight: Anna Case
Learn more about one of CNDE's PhD students, Anna Case.

March 20, 2024
CNDE Director, Reza Zoughi is the recipient of the 2023 ASNT Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture
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…

August 31, 2023
CNDE GRA will present seminar for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Nondestructive Characterization Institute
Farzaneh Ahmadi will be presenting "Millimeter-Wave Near-Field Evaluations of Polylactic Acid Filament Used in Polymer-Based Additive Manufacturing" on August 17, 2023.

July 27, 2023
ASNT 2023 Outstanding Paper authored by CNDE staff
Congratulations Pete Collins, Maria Jose Quintana, and Yuan Ji on being the recipients of the ASNT 2023 Outstanding Paper.

July 13, 2023
CNDE Student Spotlight: Trent Moritz
Learn more about one of CNDE's PhD students, Trent Moritz.

July 11, 2023
CNDE Director recognized as Featured Author on IEEE Xplore
Congratulations to Reza Zoughi on being chosen as a Featured Author on IEEE Explore!

June 30, 2023