Shane Boone

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About Shane Boone

Shane D. Boone, Ph.D, P.E, has spent over 20 years in the government, academic, and private sectors of specialized infrastructure inspection and monitoring. He specializes in the research, development and application of inspection technologies, nondestructive testing & evaluation (NDT-E) and health monitoring for the transportation, nuclear, power, oil and gas, defense, and telecom industries, among others. Previously, Dr. Boone worked for the Federal Highway Administration for whom he managed the Agency’s NDE Program and performed research on the inspection of bridges, pavements, culverts, tunnels, and other transportation infrastructure. Additionally, he assisted in the development of the Long-Term Bridge Performance Program’s Structural Health Monitoring committee. He began his career in Oak Ridge, TN, where for ten years he performed NDE on multiple nuclear facilities and systems, and developed high-speed structural and machine health monitoring systems for the Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Boone earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Utah State University, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Tennessee. Both his M.S. and Ph.D. were focused on NDE of structural concrete. He has served as an adjunct assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Utah State University and the University of Tennessee. He has previously served as the chair of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing's Structural Materials Technology Conference and Infrastructure Committee, sat on the TRB committees for inspection and bridge preservation, and is a member of multiple professional organizations dealing with inspection of the nation's bridges and infrastructure.