Ultrasonic Technician: Certification Program

Ultrasonic Testing Course Level II

Phase I, 40 hours of training
4 Thursdays, February 11, 18th, 25th, March 4, 2010; 6 – 9 PM
and 4 Saturdays, February 13, 20, 27 and March 6, 2010; 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Mayes Testing Engineers, Inc.
20225 Cedar Valley Road, Suite 110
Lynnwood, WA 98036. www.mayestesting.com

The goal of this class is for students to become a Level II Ultrasonic Technician as set forth by ASNT TC1-A.  There are 80 hours of training required for this course that we will do in two phases. This is Phase I and will meet for 40 hours.  Phase II will follow Phase I and will begin in April.

Each student MUST be either an AWS Certified Weld Inspector (CWI) or a certified WABO Structural steel Inspector and each student MUST pass a math test to be given prior to the class.  (After enrollment, students will be contacted with dates for the math test, which will be given at Mayes Testing.)

Course materials and activities will be presented in structured lectures. Specific homework quizzes and reading assignments, in class work sheets and practical lab exercises included.

Topics to be covered in level I

1. Ultrasonic Principles
2. Equipment Controls
3. Wave Propagation Reflection And Refraction
4. Couplant, Material Characteristics, Beam Spread
5. Attenuation, Impedance, Resonance
6. Screen Images, Angle Beam Inspection
7. Transducers
8. Immersion Inspection
9. Contact Testing, Wave Forms, Mathematics
10. Ultrasonic Indications
11. Discontinuity Classification

Required materials: 
Each student will need to bring a UT machine straight beam, and shear wave transducers, cables, an IIW calibration block and the training manual listed below which can be purchases at the ASNT.

Personnel Training Publications: Ultrasonic Testing Classroom Training Book
 http://www.asnt.org/shop/merchant.ihtml?pid=1471&step=4

Instructor:  Mike Virgilio has been certified as an NDT inspector for 25 years and has taught many NDT classes over the last 15 or more years.

Cost:    $350 for NWCEL members; $400 for non-members