NDT Integrity Engineering - The feasible curriculum

Abstract

NDT related high education is among the highest priorities of the Academia NDT International. Having recognized that NDT competence is increasingly essential to respond to technological development in ensuring long term integrity of structures and of ageing assets, a new profession – NDT integrity engineer and a new university discipline – was introduced. NDT integrity engineering is a profession to develop non-destructive testing and evaluation involving materials science, fracture mechanics, and other sciences that would guarantee and enhance the safety and reliability of engineering structures. Based on the needed competences of NDT integrity engineers the overall basis is the clear understanding of NDT: what can be expected, what are its possibilities and limitations, and how can it serve the structural integrity related decisions in responding to technology driven world, economic, social, and environmental challenges. The paper details the essence and the experiences of the pilot NDT integrity engineering courses completed in Hungary in 2020 and in 2022.