NDT Profession, Needs and Benefits

With the increase of the responsibility and risks of results the personnel certification in whatever activity seeks to demonstrate that the person has the knowledge and the skills to perform the tasks. Besides, there are additional requirements of the enterprises not only to assure that personnel are qualified, but also to identify the documents by suitable means, equipment traceability and by all means identify the reliability of the results. Professional registration is an important milestone for any engineer or technician in registered professions. The professional status and the actual practice of professional engineering is legally defined and protected by law to define what they are permitted to do. In many cases, only a licensed/registered engineer has the authority to take legal responsibility for the work, particularly in security and safety to carry out project implementation, testing procedure, analysis, repair, servicing, maintenance or supervision of work, process or project. In this paper the focus is on registered professions and the needs and benefits of NDT inspector to be a registered profession

Quality Assurance: Evaluation and Certification of Humanitarian Demining Detection Equipment

An extensive number of humanitarian demining detection equipment (HDDE) in the development phase requires a well-established set of testing facilities. A combination of enthusiastic and scientific testing exists throughout the majority of these facilities. During the last several years, the process of humanitarian demining (HD) in Croatia has begun under the intense effort of the Croatian Mine Action Center and other institutions. The success in starting and performing the clearance of various mine-affected regions was a combination of mechanical demining and a systematic approach. Mechanical demining has given good results on the agricultural terrain and in the fields of homogeneous soil compositions with smooth surfaces. In other situations, where the terrain is impenetrable, the pyrotechnicians have conducted manual demining. Manual demining, however, is a risky task that requires more time and results in more victims

A system for the documentation and validation of non-formal and informal learning of engineers (NFIF)

The main goal of the entire project was the creation in several phases of an overall concept, i.e. a sys-tem, for the documentation and validation of non-formal and informal learning activities. This initial development phase was followed by a implementation phase. This meant the integration of the con-cept into the already existing database system of the engineering card of VDI by creating a prototype application for testing and marketing purposes. The entire process included the revision of VDIs engi-neering card database as well as the creation of a blueprint for a handbook and several working docu-ments.During the course of the project, dissemination by FEANI and the project partners of the project goals and achievements to as many engineering organizations and other stakeholders as possible played a major part. This included information and consultation processes with different stakeholder groups on the European as well as the national level. However, dissemination was rather difficult and only three of the originally planned multiplier events were realized during the final phase of the project. Thus, some stakeholders were integrated into the project. From the view of the project partners, this has lead to an increased publicity and broader acceptance of the project in particular and the engineering card in general.In the long run, the wide dissemination of the engineering card as the only professional card exclu-sively for engineers will hopefully lead to growing transparency on the European labor market for en-gineers. This would benefit the European economy in two ways. On one hand, it would be highly ben-eficial for companies looking for qualified labor, thus helping to reduce the lack of qualified personnel in some countries. On the other hand, in countries with a large surplus of highly qualified personnel, professional mobility will increase with the availability of an instrument simplifying the often very complex and time-consuming recognition processes.For European political decision makers the engineering card offers a prototype for a simple, non-bu-reaucratic and well-tested system for recognition of professional qualifications and training. The engi-neering card may therefore function as a blueprint for projects with similar goals