Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE)

Anna Case Receives Student Best paper Award – Runner Up at IEEE Conference
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) held in Ottawa, Canada on May 16-19, 2022. Read More

July 19, 2022
Farzaneh Ahmadi Receives Student Best paper Award – Runner Up at ASNT Research Symposium
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 held in St. Louis, MO on June 20-23, 2022. Read More

July 19, 2022
NASA Space Act Agreement expands NDE capabilities in high-frequency microwave/millimeter wave testing
Iowa State University’s microwave and millimeter wave nondestructive evaluation laboratory, directed by Reza Zoughi at Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE), will expand its capabilities through a new partnership with NASA. Through a Space Act Agreement (SAA), NASA Marshal Space Flight Center (MSFC) will loan a microwave/millimeter wave performance network analyzer that makes possible measurements up to 325 GHz, significantly improving this laboratory’s range of high-frequency testing capabilities. Read More

December 14, 2021
Laser Technology Inc. shearography camera donation advances CNDE capabilities
Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) has donated a LTI-2100 Digital Shearography Camera and its accessories to Iowa State University’s Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE). The gift will expand CNDE’s research and education capabilities into shearography, a laser interferometric imaging NDE technique for detecting and measuring a range of defects on metallic and composite materials. Read More

September 30, 2021
AerE’s Stephen Holland Selected Fellow of American Society for Nondestructive Testing
Stephen Holland, associate professor of aerospace engineering and associate director of Iowa State’s Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, has been named a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) class of 2021. Since joining Iowa State in 2006, Holland has made significant contributions to multiple aerospace and NDE research and teaching innovations. Read More

September 9, 2021
CNDE graduate research assistant Katelyn Brinker receives Grand Apex Award for outstanding communications
Katelyn Brinker, graduate research assistant with the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) and co-chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Public Relations and Communications Committee, has been named a recipient of a Grand Apex Award. Read More

July 28, 2021
CNDE director Reza Zoughi receives IEEE I&M Society Career Excellence Award
Reza Zoughi, director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and the Kirby Gray (Battelle) Chair in Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the 2020 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement (I&M) Society Career Excellence Award. Read More

July 7, 2021
Two CNDE Students Win First Place in Best Student Contest Paper by I2MTC
Anna Case, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, and Aaron McCarville, senior in … Read More

May 27, 2021
CNDE researchers awarded patent for microwave reflectometry innovations
M.T. Al Qaseer (M.T. Ghasr), associate scientist at the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) and Reza Zoughi, director of CNDE, have been awarded a patent… Read More

May 11, 2021