Do you have any actual or potential partnerships with industry to study corrosion or develop continuing education for practicing engineers? If so, please describe them.

• Yes. Research activities.

• Yes. Joint projects, industry-sponsored projects, short courses onsite for engineers.

• Have a nearly completed plan to establish a distance education corrosion course in cooperation with ASM.

• Ongoing industrial partnerships in areas such as oil pipelines, semiconductor manufacturing, etc.

• We are developing continuing education options with a number of manufacturing companies.

How does the teaching of corrosion R&D fit into your strategic planning?

• It does not.

• Dependent upon interest and funding opportunities.

• It is rarely discussed.

• Major component.

• It does not have a high profile compared to things like nano, bio, etc. Still a necessary part of the education for our alumni in engineering companies.

• It is not a critical component. Corrosion is one of the many design considerations and is equivalently important to other materials selection and materials design factors.

• Unclear at this point.

• Seen as crucial in priority areas such as materials for energy applications, nanotechnology.

• We will continue to offer a course in corrosion/electrochemistry.

• We feel it is important in a broad context that includes other failure mechanisms like wear.

• Only as an outcome for the undergraduate chemical engineering.

• The department faculty feel corrosion is a critical area where students need a basic understanding

• It is not a focus area.

What are the challenges in establishing/maintaining corrosion classes?

• It is not a required class for our students and they have very few electives in their programs.

• Student interest.

• Lack of faculty interest.

• The lack of an adequate textbook that covers ALL aspects of the environmental degradation of materials. Textbooks that are exclusive to metals are