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CNDE hosted lab tours during the 2024 State Science & Technology Fair of Iowa on April 4
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…

April 25, 2024
ASNT Iowa Section hosts Technical Talk
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…

April 5, 2024
ASNT Forges Strategic Partnership as CNDE’s Newest Member
The February issue of Materials Evaluation (ME) just published an article announcing the strategic partnership between ASNT and CNDE. We are happy to announce that Neal Couture, the Chief Executive Officer of ASNT, will attend the Spring IAB meeting and outline future courses of action/plans intended…

February 20, 2024
Katie Brinker – IEEE HKN Event Speaker
Katie Brinker former CNDE graduate student, currently Senior Nondestructive Evaluation Engineer at Pratt & Whitney, will be speaking at the IEEE HKN event on the “Realities of a Research Engineer” panel. This panel is focused on making the transition from being a graduate student to working in industry and…

February 13, 2024
ASNT Iowa Section Hosts February Technical Talk at CNDE
On the afternoon of Thursday, February 1st the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Iowa Section hosted their first technical talk of the year. Luke Titus, who holds a PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Michigan State University, gave a presentation on the use of Mathematica software for solving…

February 5, 2024
CNDE Affiliated Faculty wins NSF CAREER Award
Our colleague, Azadeh Sheidaei, has won this year’s Faculty Early Career Development Award “CAREER: Cyberinfrastructure for Printable Multifunctional Microstructural Materials” from the National Science Foundation. Please join me in congratulating Azadeh for her outstanding achievement in winning this prestigious award.

January 18, 2024
Welcome ASNT to CNDE
The American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) and the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) at Iowa State University (ISU) have long served the nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E) community, providing services, leadership, training, and vital research to many member organizations. ASNT and CNDE also have a strong history…

January 11, 2024
CNDE Featured Researcher: Ron Roberts
Learn more about one of CNDE's Featured Researcher, Ron Roberts.

October 23, 2023
ASNT Iowa Section Hosts October Technical Talk at CNDE
The American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Iowa section hosted a technical talk at the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation on the evening of Wednesday, October 18th. Gavin Dao, Director of Business Development at AOS-NDT, discussed the adaptive total focusing method (ATFM) and other ultrasound techniques. A live demonstration followed the…

October 19, 2023
ASNT Iowa Section Technical Meeting – October 18th
American Society of Nondestructive Testing Iowa Section Technical Meeting Learn about ultrasound (UT) for nondestructive testing and watch a demonstration of a phased array system using the adaptive total focusing method (TFM). Learn more ahead of time here: https://www.aos-ndt.com/white-papers/…

October 18, 2023
CNDE – Fall 2023 IAB Meeting
CNDE hosted its Fall 2023 Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting on October 2-4. As usual, CNDE hosted a Pizza with Students event where our board members connected with students interested in working in the NDE community after graduation. CNDE researchers presented updates on six research projects that started in August…

October 6, 2023
Welcome GE Aerospace to CNDE
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!…

August 31, 2023