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Our next meeting will be a joint affair with ASM,
Pipeline Integrity:
Managing Corrosion, Preventing Failures, Reducing Costs, on
Tuesday, March 9, at Northern Illinois University in Naperville.
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An estimated 1750 students, parents and exhibitors attended IIT Engineering Week in Wheaton on February 20.
Thanks to the ASNTCS Board, MVCC staff and members who helped out.
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Advancements in EMATs
for In-line and In-service Applications
Twenty-six members, guests and MVCC students attended the February 8 meeting at the Golden Pheasant in Elmhurst.
Jeff Monks of Innerspec Technologies from Lynchburg, VA. Gave the presentation.
Jeff discussed the principles of EMATs, then highlighted various applications.
Many of the inspections involved high production steel processing plants for sheet and tube.
Others included applications for the beverage industry and power boilers.
Monks described the major improvements in EMAT power sources. Advances in User Interface, microprocessor and other automation
rounded out the discussion of innovation.
Eddywayne Messmer and William Klene were both received the Mentoring Award from ASNT.
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Award
One of five ASNT Fellow Awardees for 2009 was Chicago Section's Israel Vásquez
Israel Vásquez has been involved in quality systems and NDT since 1972. He began his career as an NDT technician in the US Air Force
and as a radiographer for Aerojet Solid Rocket Propulsion Company.
He has also worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company and Magnetic Inspection Laboratory.
Vásquez is an ASNT NDT Level III in MT, PT & RT. Presently, he is an independent quality systems and NDT consultant.
He is also contracted by the Performance Review Institute to conduct training and NADCAP audits.
Please see http://www.asnt.org/keydocuments/awards/ah2010jan.htm
for more detail.
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Other Chicagoland Industrial Society Meetings
DOE Innovative Technology
The DOE is developing
anti-neutrino detection for monitoring of nuclear-reactor purposes by Third World countries. See this and other innovations at the
DOE website.
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