ASNT 2020 Leadership Development Track by the Women in NDT Committee
The Women in NDT Committee has organized a set of leadership and development sessions at ASNT’s 2020 Annual Conference. These valuable sessions, including “Leading Through Change,” “Salary Negotiation Tips,” and more, will be held Wednesday, 11 November 2020 beginning at 10:00 a.m. EST. The idea for this track came from members of the committee who […]
The Importance of Nondestructive Testing
Nondestructive testing (NDT) plays a critical role in the safety of the many products, transportation systems, and infrastructure used around the world. The importance of NDT in avoiding catastrophic failures cannot be overstated. Beyond the important aspects of safety, though, NDT measurements themselves provide an essential validation of the quality of a product and […]
Professional Reinvention Is Not an Event but a Culture
The Human Perspective of Career Transitioning on the Threshold of Industry 4.0 It is still curious to me that several times a month I receive requests for career advice from friends, former students, colleagues, clients, and family members, since for me the vocational advising process in high school and the years after was an unmitigated […]
COVID-19 and the Working Technician
Coronavirus could be synonymous with change. It has affected almost everything about how we live—shopping, socializing, dining. What transformations, if any, have occurred in the working life of the average NDT technician during this tumultuous time? The workplace is one area where many changes have been instituted. Many NDT techs are considered essential and barely […]
Explaining Employer-Based Certification Programs
A couple of years ago, ASNT published a series of articles in Materials Evaluation relating to employer-based certification programs (specifically Recommended Practice No. SNT-TC-1A). They covered some of the challenges facing the industry relating to the correct interpretation/understanding of employer-based programs, but they also clarified expectations relating to the content of certificates issued by the […]