Nondestructive Evaluation
Nondestructive Evaluation covers practical NDE techniques for identifying properties and damage in civil and geologic materials, including data analysis of wave propagation and fiber optic sensing.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Describe multiple nondestructive evaluation (NDE) testing methods and their applications
Characterize flaws within Civil and Geological Engineering materials
Determine source locations of flaws or damage within a structure based on NDE data
Characterize both active and passive elastic wave observations in rock
Apply seismological principles to observed acoustic emissions for determining source locations of microcracks and infer the mechanism of failure
Analyze fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to find earthquake events within timeseries data
Apply artificial intelligence techniques to analyze fiber optic sensing data
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Prerequisites
Course mapE M A 201,PHYSICS 201, 207, or member of Engineering Guest Students
- EMA 201
- PHYSICS 201
- 207
- member of Engineering Guest Students
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- EMA 201
- PHYSICS 201
- 207
- member of Engineering Guest Students
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
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Topics
- Nondestructive evaluation techniques
- Wave propagation and fiber optic sensing data analysis
- Acoustic emissions and microcrack source location
Skills
- Describe NDE testing methods and applications
- Determine flaw source locations from NDE data
- Analyze fiber optic DAS timeseries data
- Apply AI techniques to fiber optic sensing data
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