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Meetings

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/Event Schedule

Date Topic Presenter
January 12
NDT & Special Process
Supplier Development in Asia
Dave Gonion,
Ham'n-Sunst
January 14
NDT Open House MVCC
February 9
 
AFS-ASNT Joint Meeting
RT of Steel Castings
Malcolm Blair, SFSA
February 21 ASNT Chicago Section Demos
at IIT Engineering Week, Wheaton
ASNTCS Board
March 9
 
NDE in Forensic Evaluations
 
Fred Schmidt, ESI
April 13
 
UT Automation
 
Terry Tamutus
May __ Tour: Indianapolis Speedway Ed Messmer
Alternate Speaker NADCAP Auditing
 
Israel Vasquez

Meeting History
Photos


2008 Topic Turnout
December 8 Phased-Array Transducers 23
November 3 Acoustography, a New UT Method 15
October 15 Weld Inspection Using Computed RT 31
September 8 PMI Using XRS 18
May 12 Friction Stir Welds in Al 15
April 14 Resonance Testing 18
March 10 Remote VT 17
February 11 ET Arrays in Power Generation 9
January 14 Plant Tour of GM, EMD, La Grange 21

2007 Topic Turnout
December 10 RT Profiling of Process Piping __
November 19 Failure Analysis of Railcar Bolsters 7
October 10 Phased-Array UT of Welds 46
September 10 Bridge Testing, Monitoring w/AET 13
May 7 Fermilab NUMI Project 14
April 9 Tour of Argonne Labs 12
March 5 Phased-Array UT 25
February 5 Inspection of Pipelines 10
January 15 NDE of Composites 8

2006 Topic Turnout
December 11 ASNT Status 18
November 8 Computerized RT of Weldments 25
October 9 Cleaners and New Equipment 11
September 11 Water Conds'r Boxes at Pwr Plants 8


Please direct any comments or questions
about this website to
Walt Stein, 773-742-3775.

2008-2009 ASNT
Chicago Section Board


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

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

PAST CHAIRMAN
Stu Kleven
Alloyweld Inspection
796 Maple Lane
Bensenville, IL     60106
               630-595-2145

EDUCATION
Ed Messmer
Moraine Valley
Community College

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

TREASURER
Jennifer Anaya
Alloyweld Inspection
                630-595-2145

YEARBOOK
Ray Momsen
Exponent
185 Hansen Court
Wood Dale, IL 60191
O:   630-338-3068

ADMIN
Walt Stein
         773-742-3775




















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