The 2011 annual conference was held at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, NV, February 8-10, 2011.
The conference program and session talks are posted below. The talks not available for download will be posted next week.
The 2012 conference is scheduled for Tuesday, February 14 through Thursday, February 16. Management training programs are scheduled for Tuesday afternoon and Friday morning, February 17, 2012, subjects to be determined A preliminary program will be posted late summer, 2011. If you are interested in presenting a talk contact George Moran at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with a title and 50-100 word abstract.
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- 2011 Conference Program (Download Conference Program )
- The 2011 Conference Session PowerPoint Presentation follow:
- 3D Optical Metrology as an Adjacency to NDT Technologies (Download 1 MB)
- A Case Study in New Product Development for Portable Ultrasonic Instruments (File too large to download - contact author)
- Tax Law Changes and Their Impact on NDT Service & Manufacturing Companies (Download 496 KB)
- Measurement System Analysis (Download 557 KB)
- Global Threat Reduction Initiative Partnership with the Industrial Radiography Industry (Download 2.4 MB)
- 10 CFR Part 37 – Industry and Agreement State Perspective (Download 1.1 MB)
- National Source Tracking Update (Download 1 MB)
- Acquisitions and Mergers within the NDT Industry (Download 745 KB)
- Recruitment Trends and Best Practices – Talent Match 15 (Download 270 KB)
- The Care and Feeding of Technicians – Four Generations Revisited (Download 1.6 MB)
- Time Saving Inspection with Phased Array Technology (File too large to download - contact author)
- NDE Characteristics and Applications of Manufactured Discontinuities (Download 2 MB)
- A Business Case for NDT Companies to Add IR to their Portfolio of Services (Download 8.9 MB)
- Beyond Pretty Pictures: Nondestructive Sample Analysis in Museum-based Science at the American Museum of Natural History (Download 1.3 MB)
- Changes in the 2011 Edition of SNT-TC-1A (Download 197 KB)
- Never, Ever Give Up (Download 1.4 MB)
- What Motivates Us? (Download 1 MB)
- An Interview - Leader to Leader (Download 898 KB)