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Understanding Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, NDT/NDE
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Understanding Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, NDT/NDE

How the major NDT technologies work; The advantages/disadvantages of each; and Which one best fits your application
Created byRay Harkins, The Manufacturing Academy, Garry Pace
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • A rich overview of the major NDT technologies
  • How to select the best NDT methods for your application
  • General process engineering and quality guidelines for the use of NDT
  • What are the limits of NDT
  • Visual inspection (VT) including measurement and magnification tools
  • Magnetic particle inspection (MPI) including the physics behind it and its major methods
  • Radiographic inspection (RT) including types, factors, limitations, interpretation of radiographs, and more
  • Ultrasonic testing (UT) including how it works, modes, waves, dead zones, techniques and more.
  • Eddy Current testing (ECT), Basic principles
  • Personnel certification
  • And much MORE!!!

Course content

1 section • 34 lectures • 4h 3m total length

  • Introduction to the Course7:50
  • Nondestructive Examination, Part 15:02
  • NDE Part 1 Quiz
  • Nondestructive Examination, Part 26:20
  • Non Destructive Examination Part 2
  • General principles and guidelines for NDT, Part 15:56

    Outline general principles and guidelines for nondestructive testing and evaluation. Emphasize specifying MDT, understanding why NDE is needed, and balancing cost with methods like visual, radiography, ultrasonic, and dye penetrant.

  • General principles and guidelines for NDT, Part 28:37

    Define maximum allowable flaw size through designer and engineer collaboration, guiding method selection, evaluation, and documentation in nondestructive testing. Apply multiple methods, standards, and record-keeping to ensure complete, interpretable results.

  • Choosing proper NDT5:35
  • Choosing Proper NDT
  • NDE Glossary7:22

    Explore key ndt terms such as defect, flaw, indication, and corrective action, and learn how documentation, permanent record, reference standards, and trade-offs support reliable nondestructive testing.

  • NDE Glossary
  • Limitations in flaw size7:09
  • Limitations in Flaw Size
  • NDT Principles, Part 15:08
  • NDT Principles, Part 25:49
  • NDT Principles
  • Visual Testing A8:24
  • Visual Testing #1
  • Visual Testing B7:15

    Visual testing serves as the first line of defense in nondestructive examination, enabling rapid inspection of surface defects in welds and components with borescopes, lighting, and precision measuring tools.

  • Visual Testing #2
  • Visual Testing C, Part 19:48
  • Visual Testing #3
  • Visual Testing C, Part 29:39
  • Visual Testing #4
  • Liquid Penetrant Testing, Pt 16:28
  • Liquid Penetrant Testing, Pt 26:43
  • Magnetic Particle Testing, Part 16:25
  • Magnetic Particle #1
  • Magnetic Particle Testing, Part 25:09
  • Magnetic Particle #2
  • Radiography Testing A, Part 17:31
  • Radiographic (RT) #1
  • Radiography Testing A, Part 26:01
  • Radiography Testing A, Part 38:46

    Explore how differential absorption of x rays or gamma rays reveals internal discontinuities, such as voids or weld defects, by varying material thickness and density in radiographic imaging.

  • Radiographic (RT) #2
  • Radiography Testing B Gamma10:01
  • Radiographic (RT) #3
  • Radiography Testing C10:25
  • Radiographic (RT) #4
  • Radiographic Testing D, Part 17:19
  • Radiographic (RT) #5
  • Radiographic Testing D, Part 28:51
  • Radiographic (RT) #2
  • Ultrasonic Testing, Part 15:09
  • Ultrasonic #1
  • Ultrasonic Testing, Part 25:50
  • Ultrasonic #2
  • Ultrasonic Testing B, Part 18:00
  • Ultrasonic #3
  • Ultrasonic Testing B, Part 28:14
  • Eddy Current Testing5:29
  • Eddy Current Testing Quiz
  • Personnel Certification, Part 17:19

    Understand how the ascent one a personal qualification and certification in nondestructive testing defines an employer-based framework certifying personnel from trainee to level three, with training, education, and written practice.

  • Personnel Certification, Part 29:34
  • Conclusion to the Course1:50

    Enjoy lifetime access to all course materials for nondestructive testing and evaluation, and revisit topics like eddy current testing and liquid penetrant testing, with support from Gary Pace on Udemy.

  • Bonus Lecture8:28

    Explore additional quality and manufacturing courses, including welding, metallurgy, reliability engineering, and root cause analysis, through the Manufacturing Academy, with downloadable resources listing course titles and links.

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of manufacturing

Description

"Understanding Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, NDT/NDE", the newest course from Manufacturing Academy instructor, Garry Pace. Garry is a licensed professional engineer and metallurgist with 25+ years of hands-on experience in the fields of welding, metallurgy and inspection technologies.

In this course, you will learn not only the high-level principles of non-destructive testing but also process-level details of how these technologies works and why you may want to use them.

In this course, you will learn:

  • The overarching principles of NDT/NDE

  • What types of defects are good candidates for NDT, and which ones are not

  • How to choose the correct NDT technology

  • The equipment, process and techniques of the five major processes: Visual Testing, Magnetic Particle Inspections, Eddy Current Testing, Ultrasonic Testing, and Radiography.

  • A "mini dive" into each of the 5 major processes including the physics, practices, and methods behind each.

By the end of this course, you will have a very good understanding of NDT/NDE and its major processes. And you will have the foundation of knowledge needed to take the next step into implementing specific NDT technologies.

This is an overview class with enough detail (nearly 4 hours of video) to serve two audiences:

  1. Quality, process or manufacturing engineers and managers that need to expand their understanding of NDT perhaps to meet a customer requirement or to expand their organization's capabilities in NDT,

  2. Quality technicians and aspiring NDT technicians who want to make a career move into the field of NDT/NDE, and need the foundational knowledge to move in that direction.

This course, "Understanding Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, NDT/NDE", will give you:

  1. a broad base of technical knowledge,

  2. taught by a "hands-on" expert in the field,

  3. at a remarkably affordable price.

If that sounds like what you need, then sign up today to start acquiring the skills you need!

Who this course is for:

  • Quality Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Process Engineers, Welding Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Industrial Engineers
  • Reliability Engineers, Materials Engineers, Metallurgical Engineers, Quality Technicians, NDT Technicians, NDE Technicians
  • Inspection Technicians, Welding Inspectors, Mechanical Inspectors, Maintenance Technicians, Production Supervisors
  • Manufacturing engineers, Mechanical engineers, Industrial engineers
  • Quality Managers, Engineering Managers, Manufacturing Managers, Operations Managers, Supplier Quality Engineers
  • Project Engineers, Asset Integrity Engineers, Aerospace Inspectors, Oil and Gas Inspectors, Utility Inspectors

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