NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: E M A 201 , PHYSICS 201 , 207 , or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe multiple nondestructive evaluation (NDE) testing methods and their applications Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Characterize flaws within Civil and Geological Engineering materials Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Determine source locations of flaws or damage within a structure based on NDE data Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Characterize both active and passive elastic wave observations in rock Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply seismological principles to observed acoustic emissions for determining source locations of microcracks and infer the mechanism of failure Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Analyze fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to find earthquake events within timeseries data Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Apply artificial intelligence techniques to analyze fiber optic sensing data Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe multiple nondestructive evaluation (NDE) testing methods and their applications Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Characterize flaws within Civil and Geological Engineering materials Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Determine source locations of flaws or damage within a structure based on NDE data Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Characterize both active and passive elastic wave observations in rock Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply seismological principles to observed acoustic emissions for determining source locations of microcracks and infer the mechanism of failure Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Analyze fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to find earthquake events within timeseries data Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Apply artificial intelligence techniques to analyze fiber optic sensing data Audience: Graduate