Academic education in NDT-CE in the times of pandemia

Abstract

Suitable for a session on "Training, education and standardization" Non-destructive testing methods and their basic principles are an integral part of most technical curricula of academic institutions in particular in engineering sciences. The Technical University in Munich (Chair of Non-destructive Testing) is bringing together these basics in a lecture series that is offered to a wide range of disciplines including civil, environmental and mechanical engineering including most NDT techniques including UT, RT, ET, MT, AT, TT, VT, SHM and many more. NDT is a teaching topic that requires skills from several disciplines including materials science and material testing, measurement techniques and sensors, data processing and computer science, and eventually simulation techniques. According teaching courses can be attractive for students since they offer opportunities to include interesting experiments in the lectures as well as new media. However, such courses and the practical work are suffering from pandemic situations, where special hygienic requirements are essential. This presentation will present a collection of ideas to tackle this situation with some examples from six months experience during the CoVid19 crisis. The examples include a combination of online teaching courses with exercises, webinars, homework and (limited) practical trainings. The underlying pedagogic concept is following the fundamentals of constructive alignment.

Some developments in the field of non‐destructive testing ‐ new devices and techniques, industrial training and academic education

“…Figure 15 Some selected NDT methods (in the core) and some areas of application (satellites) [36] Such permanent monitoring (as Structural Health Monitoring SHM) enables the stakeholder to use the data also for an optimized maintenance and repair strategy. Predictive Maintenance can adjust the inspection intervals to appropriate periods and to better plan proper rehabilitation.…”

“…Such training procedures can be complemented by homework studies like the NDT Wiki project at TU Munich (Fig. 13) where students are assigned to write their own Wiki article about a subtopic in NDT [36]. All articles are after revision uploaded as single web pages and published online in the NDT Wiki of the Chair of Non-Destructive Testing.…”

“…Figure13 Main webpage of the NDT Wiki of the Chair of NDT of the Technical University of Munich https://wiki.tum.de/display/zfp/[36] …”