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RCNDE governance

The RCNDE Management Board

The RCNDE Management Board is the governing body of RCNDE and has ultimate responsibility for all policy and strategic issues, as well as approving and directing the Centre’s activities. The RCNDE Director and Management team report to the RCNDE Management Board at least three times per year as part of RCNDE’s annual activity cycle.
The Management Board has a voting membership composed of one representative for each fully paid Tier 1 and Tier 2 member, one representative from each member university, one representative of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the RCNDE director and another executive director of the NDE Research Association.
In addition, the Centre undertakes to ensure effective communication between the researchers and industry, both informally and formally via the Board. The consortium may be broadened to include other universities with research capabilities needed to meet requirements identified by the Board.

International Advisory Board

Whilst RCNDE’s academic community includes world class researchers, and already provides a very high value cross-institution peer review contribution, it is also supported by a group of international experts in NDE that provides independent advice and guidance to ensure RCNDE’s research activities are of world-leading quality.

Four leading academics are the current members of the International Advisory Board (IAB):

Prof Mike Todd

Prof Norbert Meyendorf

Prof Dr Uwe Ewert

Dr John C. Aldrin

The IAB members play an essential role during the annual review process by providing constructive and independent feedback for the different research projects. They also engage with the RCNDE academic community during regular visits to the various research groups.

The RCNDE IAB also involves ad-hoc members that contribute their particular expertise in other related subjects as required by the Centre’s running projects.

Prof Mike Todd

University of California San Diego, USA

Professor Todd is the Director of the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) laboratory in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He brings an extensive range of both academic and industry expertise to the RCNDE International Advisory Board by, for example, serving on the editorial board of ‘Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal’ and being a partner in Los Alamos Dynamics LLC, a private engineering consulting and education company. Professor Todd has received many awards and accolades including the Structural Health Monitoring Person-of-the-Year Award in 2005, while more recently (2009), he was named a Benjamin F. Meaker Fellow at the University of Bristol. For more information, go to the University of California San Diego website.

Prof Norbert Meyendorf

Adjunct Faculty at Iowa State University, the University of Dayton and the University Dresden, Germany

Until retirement in summer 2018 Dr. Norbert Meyendorf was professor in the Aerospace Engineering program at the Iowa State University and deputy director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation in Ames, Iowa.

Before moving to Ames he was department head and branch director at the Fraunhofer institute for Nondestructive Testing in Germany for more than 20 years and Professor at the University of Dayton, Ohio and the University of Technology in Dresden, Germany for more than 10 years. He has edited several books, is author or coauthor of numerous journal articles and is editor in chief of the Journal of NDE published by Springer. He was chair of the SPIE symposium Smart Structures and NDE for 4 years and, every year since 2001, chair or co-chair of a conference within this symposium. He still continues to teach as adjunct Faculty at Iowa State University, the University of Dayton and the University Dresden, Germany. He is member of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, the German Society for Nondestructive Testing and Fellow of SPIE.

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Prof Dr Uwe Ewert

Dresden International University, Germany

Dr Uwe Ewert is a guest professor at the Dresden International University. He is also an RT level 3 and RT-D level 2 trainer and examiner of DGZfP and for X-Ray-Net, having conducted RT-Digital training for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1996 (as well as for a range of organisations across the world). Dr Ewert was previously Director and Professor of the division of ‘Non-destructive testing, radiation methods’ at BAM-Berlin (Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing) in Germany from 2000 to 2017 and, before that, he was at the Baker-Lab of Cornell University, USA. His many accolades include: The Berthold award of DGZfP (2005); the Roentgen medal (2009); the Briggs Award of ASTM-International (2010); the Roy Sharpe Award of BINDT (2016); and the needle of honour of DGZfP (2021). 

Dr John C. Aldrin

Computational Tools, Illinois, USA

Dr John C. Aldrin is the principal of Computational Tools, specializing in the transition of nondestructive evaluation research to applications. He has extensive experience in nondestructive evaluation modelling and simulation, data analysis, AI/ML and inverse methods for materials characterization, and reliability assessment. Dr Aldrin works as a Visiting Scientist with the Air Force Research Laboratory (since 2001) leading research on computational methods in NDE, has led automated data analysis software development efforts with SAIC and TRI Austin, participates in the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) NDE Technical Discipline Team (since 2004), and supports the Center for NDE (CNDE) at Iowa State University as an Affiliated Research Scientist. He has co-authored over 180 journal, conference and book publications and is a Fellow of the ASNT. For more information, please go to the Computational Tools website.

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