Mehl
Honor Lecture
[reprinted from the Awards and Honors column, Materials Evaluation, January 2008]
2007 Winner Roderic K. Stanley
For the past 30 years, Rod Stanley has been actively involved in the research and development of nondestructive testing technologies for oil country tubular goods. Some of the tools developed in that time have changed the course of tubular testing, while others, such as a robot that crawls through pipe, hold great promise for the future. Stanley is a consultant for itRobotics, International Oilfield Services and Tubecare International. His work varies from research in robotic NDT of tubular products to training and certifying oilfield tubular inspectors. He is the chair of the API Resource Group for Coiled Tubulars, and is a member of the British Institute for NDT and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. With Don Bray, he is the author of Nondestructive Evaluation: A Tool in Design, Manufacturing, and Service.
A member of ASNT since 1978, Stanley has served as chair of the Electromagnetics Committee and the Handbook Development Committee, both of which he continues to be involved with. Stanley is also a member of the Chemical and Petroleum Committee and the Materials Evaluation committee. He has been an associate technical editor for the journal for many years and has contributed 18 articles. Other articles have been published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and ASME.
Stanley was heavily involved with the NDT Handbooks on electromagnetic testing, magnetic particle testing and special methods. For his contributions to the Society, he was named an ASNT Fellow in 1992.
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