ICorr is excited to announce that BP has been become the first organisation to sign up to the Institute’s newest grade of benefit-laden membership.ICorr’s Corporate Membership programme offers membership for all corporate employees across all of ICorr’s grades from Affiliate to Fellow.
The benefits of Corporate Membership are:
• Any number of employees can be included in the programme, which is costed based on the number of employees involved.
• Free admission for one employee to the annual Corrosion Science Symposium.
• A 10% discount for employees on all conferences and symposia.
• A free table for 10 people at the prestigious ICorr London Branch Christmas Luncheon, that in previous years welcomed guest speakers including former politician Ann Widdecombe and cricket legend Henry Blofeld.
• Free advertising in Corrosion Management magazine and on the Institute of Corrosion website.
• Access to ICorr’s career progression and competence programme.
• Guaranteed places on the extremely popular and always oversubscribed Young Engineer Programme, which takes place every two years.
“We are delighted to be the first Corporate Member of ICorr and have signed up ten of our UK based employees.We value our relationship with ICorr and the benefits this membership will bring us” – Dr Chris Williams, BP Senior Advisor for Corrosion Engineering.
ICorr are extremely grateful to BP for being the first to sign up to our Corporate Membership programme which is a watershed moment for this initiative. and which has been in planning for some time.
If you feel Corporate Membership is right for your company, please contact us at, admin@icorr.org
This year the CSS will join the “Advances in Corrosion Protection by Organic Coatings” meeting in Manchester (6th-9th Sept).The meeting will have a residential element (with live-streaming) and an online option – a hybrid event.CSD have approximately 40 “in-person” places available on a first-come basis and will run the conference, as much as possible, conventionally.Virtual participation as a presenter or listener is also possible, with conventional oral and poster (“three-minute thesis”) presentations encouraged.
The abstract deadline is 27th August 2021.Advances in Corrosion Protection by Organic Coatings is a five-yearly international conference postponed from last year and held in curtailed fashion this year due to the pandemic.
The ICorr Corrosion Science Symposium is the annual meeting for students and researchers working in all areas of Corrosion Science and Engineering. The symposium is an ideal opportunity for early career researchers in corrosion to discuss their work, share ideas and, above all enjoy themselves in a stimulating/friendly environment.CSD believes it is important to keep the CSS running even during these restrictive times.
Professor Mary Ryan will receive the UR Evans award 2021 at this Symposium for her outstanding contributions in the broad aspects of corrosion science and engineering. Mary’s research is focused on understanding nanoscale materials, and nanoscale interfaces in and between materials and their environments. She has a particular interest in the
development of operando approaches and has pioneered nanoscale methods in synchrotron science.
Further information will be available soon on the conference website, www.corrosionmanchester.org
Young ICorr have been exploring options for future events in 2021, including a series of online events over a 12-month period called, “Meet your Mentors”. These events will allow young engineers to network and engage with experienced industry and academic professionals across a number of disciplines. In addition to this, depending on local restrictions, an event will be held in London, UK, in person towards the end of 2021.
You can follow Young ICorr on LinkedIn to find out more information about previous events, and to ensure you do not miss out on future events.
With the prospect of travelling and restrictions finally being eased, training at Corrosion House, Northampton, is being considered again, and it is hoped to have to face to face ICATS in the near future.
Online training will also continue as it has proven to be very successful during the pandemic but with the potential of being able to offer an online or face to face training options.
The 2021 ICorr/CORREX audit was carried out virtually at the end of July, and all being well we will pass this surveillance audit with all boxes ticked and systems in place once more. Face to face audits will resume in the last quarter of this year
Some companies require this type of audit for their own management system, and if this refers to your company, please contact me on my normal email address.
Also, we are intending to add to our suite of ICATS courses in the near future,
so watch this space for more information
FinalIy, I hope that the summer proves to be very successful for you all, and the recovery gives you an abundance of projects to work on.
Welcome to the summer edition of your magazine – at last it feels like some good weather has arrived and for me it’s felt a long time coming
this year.
Although things tend to slow down a bit over the summer months ICorr continues to move forward and there is a lot happening in the area of training, so I’ll focus on that for
this issue.
We have identified some gaps in our broader corrosion engineering training offering and have progressed with two new courses,
Microbially Influenced Corrosion (MIC):We recently signed a contract with Tony Rizk to develop a training course for MIC. Tony is a leading practitioner on MIC and, more importantly, how to control it, and we are delighted to have partnered with him on this project. The course content should be finished this year and be available in 2022.
Production Chemistry:At the end of 2020 BP generously donated their training materials related to production chemistry to ICorr.George Winning and myself are now working to turn this into a more generalised training programme which will provide corrosion practitioners with the relevant knowledge of production chemistry problems, and how they relate to corrosion and corrosion control activities. The initial focus will be on oil and gas production.
David Mobbs and Sarah Vasey recently ran a pilot programme for our new Fire Protection Coatings Inspector (level 3) training course with key industry practitioners. This was very successful, and provided useful feedback which will be incorporated into the programme.
We are also excited to have recently signed non-disclosure agreements with the Brazilian corrosion society (ABRACO) which will allow us to work together to develop training programmes for Brazil. Many thanks to Lucia Fullalove and Kevin Harold for making this possible.
The development and updating of our training programmes is covered by our training strategy, and this is now in need of a refresh which will be undertaken in the autumn with around ten ICorr members who are actively involved in developing our training materials.Related to this is a discussion around the best format(s) of our training materials, e.g. classroom, virtual classroom, on-demand.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions on which format(s) we should use, or training, I’d love to hear from you using the email address below.
I hope you are able to take a break over thesummer and get some well-deserved rest.
Until next time,
Bill Hedges, Institute of Corrosion President
Email: president@icorr.org
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