The University of Ultrasonics

02/25/2026

We're excited to announce that our instructor Shane has been invited to speak and present at the upcoming AINDT Summit in Newcastle, Australia!

AINDT is pleased to confirm that Shane Walton will headline the AINDT Summit 2026 as keynote speaker and technical workshop presenter. Shane brings a rare combination of heavy-industry inspection experience, Level III technical leadership, and specialist training expertise. As General Manager and In...

11/24/2025

Our instructor Shane presents the Digital Revolution- Episode 7: Total Focusing Method (TFM) Amplitude Fidelity, Grid Resolution, and The Diagonal Problem. Here he expands on the Digitization Frequency and Fidelity discussions we have in our 80-hour TFM course at the school, and introduces an issue not widely considered in the industry.

Shane Walton with University of Ultrasonics presents Video 7 of his Digitization series. In this installment, we explore Full Matrix Capture (FMC) & Total Fo...

06/19/2025

We recently finalized our tentative course schedule for the remainder of 2025. Scheduled courses include our standard 80-hour PAUT course, our 3rd week PAUT Course- Code Compliance and Sizing, TOFD, UTLv1 & UTLv2, among others. You can check the calendar and other info on our website at https://universityofultrasonics.com/calendar/ For registration and general info, you can reach us at [email protected]. Connect with us and let's discuss how WE can help YOU Level Up Your UT Skills!

03/07/2025

We're finishing up 2 weeks of advanced conventional UT courses today! Last week was our 40- hour UTSW course for Detection, Characterization and Sizing of weld defects (we call that UT-301). That course serves as a prep course for practical exams such as the The American Society for Nondestructive Testing ISQ UTSW exam and the The American Petroleum Institute QUTE exam, in addition to simply sharpening up the UTSW skills introduced in your basic UTLv2 course.

This week, we have been holding our UT-302 course- Conventional UT Crack sizing, using refracted shear wave and L-wave techniques. This was actually the 1st class offered at UofUT, going back nearly 20 years ago! This course is ideal to serve as a prep course for individuals looking to pass the API QUSE sizing qualification, and the EPRI Sizing exam. In this course we use a variety of single element and dual element techniques, including basic tip diffraction, Bi-modal dual probes, High angle L-Wave and High Angle Shear wave Dual probes, etc. Now that API has combined the QUTE and QUSE, these two prep courses taken back- to- back help technicians better guarantee a win when taking the exams. We will be holding another session of these two courses in the coming months, in addition to all the other advanced courses like PAUT, TOFD, TFM/FMC that we are known as industry leaders in. Contact us at [email protected], and check our website at https://universityofultrasonics.com/ and let us help you Level Up Your UT Skills!

12/06/2024

We have updated our website calendar, now showing 2025 course dates through the end of May. Phased Array, Total Focusing Method, TOFD, UTSW ISQ & API Prep, PA-CAT, UTLv1 & 2, and others. The early courses are already starting to get filled up. You can view our schedule here-https://universityofultrasonics.com/calendar/month/2025-01/ . Contact us at [email protected] to secure your spot and let us help you Level Up Your UT Skills!!

06/28/2024

This week we've had a great group in class for our 40-Hour UTSW weld examination practical prep course. Our students are ending the course with a mock ASNT-ISQ UTSW exam consisting of plates and pipes consistent with the ASNT and API exam samples. We will be holding this course again in August. We have a full schedule this summer with PAUT, TFM/FMC, PA-CAT, UTLV1&LV2, and other courses scheduled for the upcoming weeks. Fall and winter course dates should be finalized in the next week. You can see our course schedule here - https://universityofultrasonics.com/calendar/. Shoot us an email at [email protected] for registration and course info.

04/05/2024

NEW COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT- We will be holding our first ASNT-ISQ UT Thickness Prep Course here at the school, scheduled to run from Wed, May 29th- Friday, May 31st. Our instructors are ASNT-ISQ certified, and have already been delivering private classes to clients in the recent months. Now we are proud to include it officially as part of our regular course offerings. We will be adding more dates in the coming weeks. See course details here- https://universityofultrasonics.com/training-university-of-ultrasonics/conventional-ultrasonic-ut-training/asnt-isq-utt-prep-course/ and contact us at [email protected] for registration!

Cost: $1,000.00 per student Duration: 24 Hours Prerequisites: UT Level II Thickness certification minimum Equipment Needed: Attendees should bring their own personal scope and probe kit if they have one. Recommended equipment includes a thickness meter or scope that the student is already familiar w...

02/08/2024

We're starting to wrap up this week's UTLv1 course, finishing up with an introduction to UTSW setups and calibrations. UT Lv2 is next week, where we will continue building the basic fundamentals for the method and introduce weld examination strategies. Following that, we will host our 40-hour UTSW Weld examination course that serves as a prep course for The The American Society for Nondestructive Testing-ISQ and The American Petroleum Institute- QUTE exams! We still have a few spots open for our UTSW course, email us at [email protected] to reserve your spot!

10/20/2023

We have decided to hold an crack- sizing competition next week at our booth- # 653, during the ASNT (The American Society for Nondestructive Testing) 2023 conference in Houston!!!! Entrants will scan 5 crack samples with the technique of your choice- UTSW, PAUT, or TFM. Winner will receive a voucher for a free 40- hour class, or half off an 80- hour class here at the UofUT, good through the end of 2024. Stop by booth 653 next week for more details and to sign up!

09/13/2023

We're excited to have been featured recently by our friends at Evident Industrial highlighting a recent training session that was held in Anchorage, Alaska for our client Kakivik.

The University of Ultrasonics traveled to the Alaskan oilfields to give an on-site course to NDT technicians and Evident supplied the equipment. Learn more in this blog post.