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Our next meeting will be a presentation ASNT President Jocelyn Langlois on Monday, December 8, at:

Golden Pheasant Map
668 W. North Ave.
Elmhurst, IL 60126
630-279-8544

Social Hour: 6:00
Dinner: 7:00
Presentation: 8:00

Dinner cost is $20, $10 for students. If you can't make it for dinner, come anyway for the presentation is free. Non-members are always welcome.

Please make reservations by contacting Walt Stein, 773-742-3775, by December 5. Reservations are not necessary for Board members.


Phased-Array Transducers

by
Jocelyn A. Langlois
of
Sigma Transducers, Inc.

Two Primers on Phased-Array Transducers:
     NDT.net
     Olympus


Speaker Biography

Jocelyn Langlois is the 2008-2009 ASNT president. Langlois currently holds a Level III cert. in UT and has been an active volunteer in ASNT for more than fifteen years.

She has been employed by Sigma Transducers, Inc. for over eighteen years.

Prior to Sigma, Langlois worked in the medical application of ultrasound, including beta testing of acoustical holography for the detection of breast cancer. Following this experience, she attended the International Ultrasound Institute in Dallas, Texas.

At the local level, she has served ASNT as educational director, secretary, treasurer, vice chair and chair, as well as regional director. Langlois has also been active locally in bringing NDe career information to the schools since 1996. At the national level, she first joined the Section Operations Council (SOC) in 1995 as secretary of the Membership Division, after which she become chair of that division in 1996. She served as the Membership Division chair until 2000, when she was elected vice chair of SOC, and was Council chair from 2002 to 2004. In addition, she is the Regional Directors Division chair for the Council. From 2002–2005, she served as the Council’s representative to the Board of Directors. She currently serves as a member of both the Business and Finance Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee. Additionally, she has been appointed to numerous ad hoc committees formed by the ASNT chair of the Board. She has enjoyed meeting members at the numerous sections she has visited.

Langlois is also active in ASTM as a member of the E07 Committee on Nondestructive Testing; she is currently vice chair of the Ultrasonics Subcommittee and is considered “owner” of E 1065: Standard Guide for Evaluating Characteristics of Ultrasonic Search Units. She is a member of AWS and the Canadian Institute for NDE.


Meeting Schedule

Date Method Topic Who
Sept.

TBD



ASNTCS Board

Meeting History
Photos

2010 Method Topic Turnout
May 27 NDT Tour:  Indianapolis Speedway 6
May 12-13 NDT Seminar:  Nadcap's NDT Practices 10
April 12 UT Acoustography: Dawn of a New Era... 29
March 9 NDT Joint Meeting w/ASM:  PetroChem Corros'n 70+
Feb. 20 NDT Demos at IIT Engineering Week ~1750
Feb. 8 UT EMATs 26
Jan. 11 NDT ASNT:  Where Do We Go From Here? 24

2009 Method Topic Turnout
Dec. 14 NDT Past Chairmans Night 13
Nov. 9 NDT Windshield Glass Adhesive Bonds 15
Oct. 19-23 NDT ASNT Fall Conference, Columbus 1286
Oct. 17 NDT Demos, Des Plaines Public Library 210
Oct. 14 UT, RT NDT of Friction Stir Weldments (JM w/AWS) 33
Sept. 22-23 NDT QA:  Seminar:  NADCAP Auditing, MVCC 14
Sept. 14 ET PMI—Positive Metal Identification 17
May 14 NDT Tour:  Indianapolis Speedway 11
April 13 UT UT Automation 23
March 9 RT RT in Failure Analysis:  X-ray vs. Neutron 27
Feb. 21 NDT Demos at IIT Engineering Week ~1300
Feb. 9 RT RT of Steel Castings (JM w/AFS)
43
Jan. 14
NDT Open House at MVCC ~150
Jan. 12
NDT Supplier Development in Asia 13

2008 Method Topic Turnout
Dec. 8 UT Phased-Array Transducers 23
Nov. 3 UT Acoustography, a New UT Method 15
Oct. 15 RT Weld Insp'n w/Computed RT (JM w/AWS) 31
Sept. 8 ET PMI—Positive Metal Identification 18
May 12 UT, RT NDT of Friction Stir Weldments 15
April 14 UT Resonance Testing 18
March 10 VT Remote VT 17
Feb. 11 ET ET Arrays, Systems in Power Generation 9
Jan. 14 NDT Plant Tour of GM, EMD, La Grange 21

2007 Method Topic Turnout
Dec. 10 RT Radiographic Profiling of Process Piping 10?
Nov. 19 NDT Failure Analysis of Railcar Bolsters 7
Oct. 10 UT Phased-Array UT of Welds (JM w/AWS) 46
Sept. 10 AE Bridge Testing, Monitoring w/AE 13
May 7 NDT Fermilab NUMI Project 14
April 9 NDT Tour of Argonne Labs 12
March 5 UT Phased-Array UT 25
Feb. 5 RT Inspection of Pipelines 10
Jan. 15 NDT NDE of Composites 8

2006 Method Topic Turnout
Dec. 11 NDT ASNT Status 18
Nov. 8 RT Weld Insp'n w/Computed RT (JM w/AWS) 25
Oct. 9 PT Cleaners and New Equipment 11
Sept. 11 NDT Water Conds'r Boxes at Pwr Plants 8


2009-2010 ASNT
Chicago Section Board


CHAIRMAN
John Zaffer
Rcon-NDT
O:   815-254-5142

TREASURER
Jennifer Anaya
Alloyweld Inspection
796 Maple Lane
Bensenville, IL  60106
            630-595-2145

DIRECTOR
Stu Kleven
Alloyweld Inspection

VICE CHAIR,
EDUCATION CHAIR

Ed Messmer
Moraine Valley
Community College

10900 S. 88th Avenue
Palos Hills, IL   60465
           708-691-3672

SECRETARY
Ray Momsen
Acuren
1951 N. Woodlawn
Griffith, IN    46319
O:   219-972-7900

PAST CHAIR
Larry Koch
Scot Incorporated
2525 Curtiss Street
Downers Grove, IL  60515
                630-810-4275 x347

MEMBERSHIP CHAIR
Membership Ap
Chris Gamblin
All Transtek

ADMIN
Walt Stein
773-742-3775




















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