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It plays a critical role in determining the life-cycle performance, safety, and cost of engineered products and systems of value to the national defense and the general health and welfare of the public. Technology areas where corrosion plays an important role include energy production (for example, power plant operation and oil and gas exploration, production, and distribution)
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This study was commissioned to do two things: • Assess the level and effectiveness of existing engineering curricula in corrosion science and technology, including corrosion prevention and control, and • Recommend actions that could enhance the corrosion-based skill and knowledge base of graduating and practicing engineers. From the perspective of assessing corrosion education, the workforce of gradu ating and practicing engineers is divided as follows: • Technologists who perform repeated critical tasks; • Undergraduate engineering students in materials science and engineer ing (MSE)
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• Electronics and computers. As modern electronic circuitry goes to ever smaller dimensions, new problems arise from environmental attack on circuits as their surface to volume ratio increases.
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If corrosion engineering education is to flourish, the committee believes the number of MSE faculty specializing in corrosion will need to increase. This means that federal agencies and industry will need to support university-based corrosion specialists, who will become a foundational corps of teachers.
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This situation is aggravated by the retirement of the few people with corrosion expertise and the near absence of corrosion engineering experience in new hires emerging from graduate and undergraduate engineering programs. Based on the committee's expert judgment and its assessment of the data g athered during the course of this study and the opinions and information received from government, industry, and the MSE and engineering communities, the committee concludes that the current level and effectiveness of engineering curricula in corrosion, offered through university-based and on-the-job training, will not provide a sufficient framework to allow the country to reduce substantially the national cost of corrosion or to increase the safety and reliability of the national infrastructure.
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All MSE undergraduate students should be required to take a course in corrosion control so as to improve the corrosion knowledge of gradu ating materials engineers. Two Longer-Term Strategic RECOMMENDATIONS In addition to the recommendations above, the details of which are expanded on in the report, during the course of the study the committee became convinced that there were two compelling challenges outstanding: one for the federal govern ment, in particular the DOD, and one for the corrosion community itself.
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Strategic Recommendation to the Corrosion Community Recommendation: To build an understanding of the continuing need for corrosion engineering education, the corrosion research community should engage the larger science and engineering community and communicate the challenges and accomplishments of the field. To achieve this goal the corrosion research A National Research Council study getting underway in the autumn of 2008 is charged with identifying the most compelling scientific questions in fundamental corrosion science.
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Assessment of C o r ro s i o n E d u c at i o n community should identify and publish the research opportunities and priori ties in corrosion research and link them to engineering grand challenges faced by the nation. To show how the field of corrosion could meet these challenges, the corrosion research community should reach out to its peers by speaking at conferences outside the field, publishing in a broad range of journals, and w riting review articles for broad dissemination.
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