Handbook of Nondestructive Evaluation 4.0

Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University in 1983. He has held visiting and/or adjunct positions at various institutions including Nasa Glen Research Center, The Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianopolis, Brazil, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Electricite De France, Paris, France, The University of Lille, Lille, France and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Dr. Ida has published extensively, in over 400 publications, on electromagnetic field computation, parallel and vector algorithms and computation, nondestructive testing of materials, surface impedance boundary conditions, and sensing. He has written 9 books, amongt them a textbook on engineering electromagnetics, now in its fourth edition, and a textbook on sensing and actuation, now in its second edition. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), a Fellowof the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Technology (IET). Dr. Ida teaches Electromagnetics, Antenna Theory, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Sensing and Actuation as well as Computational Methods and Algorithms.

Dr. Ripi Singh is a freelance innovation and strategy coach, specializing in preparing his clients for the upcoming Fourth Industrial Revolution. He boasts decades of experience in creating new technologies and products, and fostering a culture of innovation through academia, small business, and Fortune 500 companies in India, Germany, and the USA. He holds a Masters Degree in Strategic Thinking from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has been recognized with the President of India Cash Prize for Research, the National Technical Education award, as well as with uninterrupted scholarships for 15 years from throughout high school in India to his post-doctoral studies at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Singh serves on the Council of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, the most prestigious body serving the needs of the state, as well as on the Advisory Boards of the Universities of Hartford and New Haven. He is also an instructor at the Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education. His most notable roles as of late include serving on the US delegation on ISO 56000 for Innovation Management, and as Chair of the NDE 4.0 committee for the ASNT.

Dr. Johannes Vrana, born in 1978, studied physics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany and completed his PhD in 2008 at the Saarland University on the subject of thermographic testing. He then worked for Siemens Power and Gas in Orlando, USA as well as in Berlin and Munich, Germany, and was Chairman of the Siemens NDE Council. In addition to worldwide harmonization of NDE specifications and the introduction of statistical tools, he was responsible for the development of automated NDE and the synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT). In 2015 he received an Honorable Mention for Ingenuity at the U.S. Excellence Awards and, in 2016, he received 4th prize for Ingenuity at the Werner von Siemens Awards.

In 2015 Dr. Vrana founded his own company. Vrana GmbH, based in Rimsting, Germany and specializing in NDE consulting and solutions, R&D, and software development. Moreover, he is chairman of the ICNDT (International Committee for NDT) Specialist International Group "NDE 4.0", of the ASNT (American Society for NDT) German Section, and of the DGZfP (German Society for NDT) subcommittees "Interfaces and Documentation for NDE 4.0" and "Automated Ultrasonic Testing". In 2019 he was awarded with the DGZfP application award for the implementation of SAFT into serial production of large rotor forgings.