Keynote Speech 1: ASNT's vision on certification of NDT personnel with respect to current and future technologies

It is a great honor to be invited here to share thoughts on the subject of “ASNT's vision on Certification of NDT Personnel with respect to current and future technologies.” My professional career mirrors this title. Most of you are experienced in multiple NDT methods, while I have only one method: infrared thermography. The name “Infrared Thermography” is a bit misleading because it refers specifically to the operation of infrared cameras. A better description is thermal and spectral analysis because infrared testing is fundamentally about the behavior of infrared radiation in materials. Twenty-five years ago. Infrared thermography was classically thought of as condition monitoring for electrical power distribution systems. Today, the category has matured into a high tech method for examining aerospace composite materials and there is no clear distinction between condition monitoring and nondestructive testing.