A Workshop on Non Destructive Testing was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the banner of its Students Association - TORQUE on Tuesday, 9 th May 2017 in the Spoorthi Conference Hall at 9:15 am. The workshop aimed at providing a platform for budding professionals to enhance knowledge and practice of non-destructive testing technology.
Mr Girish Babu, Executive Director and Mr Ganesh S. Tahashildar, Sr. Quality Manager at V&G Industrial Testing Laboratory were the Resource Persons.
Dr Sudheer M, HOD - Mechanical Engineering, welcomed the resource persons. Mr Swaraj Lewis and Mr Pooesh M, TORQUE Coordinators were the event organizers.
The first lecture was presented by Mr Ganesh S. Tahashildar, who gave a technical session on the topic of Welding Defects using NDT. The talk concluded with a Question and Answer sessions where the students put out their queries on the topic. The second session of the day was on the topic of NDT Methods, which was presented by Mr Girish Babu. The last session was presented by Mr Naveen R, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering – SJEC on the subject matter of NDT in Process Plants. This was followed by a vote of thanks by the Torque coordinator, Mr. Swaraj D Lewis.
The afteoon session was an industrial visit to V&G Industrial Testing Laboratory in Baikampady. The company representatives conducted demonstration on several NDT techniques like radiography, ultrasonic testing, magnetic particle tests, dye penetration tests etc.