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[reprinted from the Awards and Honors column, Materials Evaluation, November 2007]
2007 Winner Kirit V. Smart
Kirit Smart is the president of Smart Associates, Inc., of Melbourne, Florida, which he established in 1992. A member of ASNT since 1977, Smart has a long history of involvement with the NDT industry. The holder of bachelor's degrees in both mechanical and electrical engineering (1965 and 1967, respectively), Smart began working with NDT and maintenance of boilers, textile machines, and power generation and transmission equipment in his native India. Relocating to the United States, Smart began working for BASF Wyandotte Corporation's Plastic Raw Materials and Chemical Plant in South Kearney, New Jersey, in 1972 as an engineer responsible for NDT of boilers, piping and power generation equipment. Beginning in 1974, he was employed by the Commercial Union Insurance Company in their Boiler and Machinery Division, where he performed third-party audits and further NDT activities. From 1977 to 2001, Smart was principal engineer at Florida Light and Power, where he was the corporate Level III, radiation safety officer, lead auditor and area quality control supervisor. As president of Smart Associates, he provides outside agency services as a Level III and NDT auditor, develops and qualifies NDT procedures and radiation safety programs, and provides NDT personnel training and qualification services. In 2006, he was named a Businessman of the Year by the National Republican Congressional Committee's Business Advisory Council.
Smart served as a member of ASNT's National Certification Board from 1991 to 1997, and was a member of the Society's Board of Directors from 1991 to 1994. An ASNT Fellow (1991), he has been involved in the Section Operations Council as chair, vice chair and secretary, as well as through service as the Membership Division chair. He has devoted much time and energy to the development of postconference seminars, and has been a section officer and chair for both the Miami and Palm Beach Sections of ASNT. Smart has also served as a member of the IRRSP Committee. In addition to his ASNT activities, he has been a member of ASME, AWS and NDTMA.
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