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R. Bruce Thompson is the Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He received his B.A. in Physics from Rice University (1964), his M.S. in Physics from Stanford University (1965) and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University (1971). From 1970 to 1980 he served as a member of the technical staff and Group Leader of Ultrasonic Applications at the Rockwell International Center before coming to Iowa State University. Thompson’s research interests fall in the area of ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation. Specialties include the analysis and development of noncontact sensors, in particular electromagnetic acoustic transducers, modeling the effects of measurement geometry on ultrasonic inspection, and studying the uses of ultrasound to characterize a variety of microstructural and material properties such as stress, texture, porosity, grain size, and anisotropy and partially contacting interfaces. Thompson is the author of 6 major invited review articles in the field of nondestructive evaluation, over 90 articles in archival journals and over 190 papers in edited conference proceedings. He has been awarded 23 U.S. patents and presently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation.
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