The intent of Young ICorr is to develop a network of younger professionals, who are either working or interested in the field of corrosion, and to assist in their career development as a member of the Institute. The vision of “Young ICorr” is to Recruit, Train, Retain, the younger generations of engineers and scientists, and to assist in increasing their experience, their corrosion network, and to improve their career opportunities.
In recent years, the Young ICorr community and network has rapidly grown under the leadership of Caroline Allanach who chaired the committee after participating in the 2018 Young Engineers Programme (YEP). Fellow participant, and team member of the 2018 YEP, Danny Burkle, worked closely with Caroline, as vice-chair, to help drive membership growth and assist in bridging the gap between the senior ICorr members, and the engineers, scientists, technicians and researchers in the earlier stages of their career.
Caroline, has recently completed 2 years as the chair and Danny is taking over the chair of the committee. Danny will continue to help continue the growth of Young ICorr and to assist the younger generation with the next steps in their career path. As chair, Danny’s first task has been to recruit a new vice-chair and to confirm the Young ICorr committee structure.
James McGladdery, who participated in the 2019 YEP and joined the committee after the programme had finished, has assisted greatly in the growth of the network and will become the next vice-chair. One of the first major tasks for the Danny and James will be to restructure and build the committee to assist with further membership development and growth and to plan the next 12 months of events. The new committee will be made up of professionals in both academia and industry related positions, and widely spread across the UK and beyond.
Young ICorr are currently looking for enthusiastic, motivated people to join the advisory committee, and if you are interested in joining, or interesting in learning more about our vision and future events. then please contact Danny for more information on info.youngicorr@gmail.com. The chair looks look forward to hearing from you and to welcome you to a network of like- minded peers.
In July of this year, ICorr/CORREX had a very successful audit with LRQA and passed with no recommendations for action or non-conformances.
In the build-up to the audit, ISO 17024 was added to the audit schedule, and also added to the ICorr/CORREX Quality Manual.This meant that our forms and documents had to be changed to comply with this standard. All students being registered for ICATS training will now have to sign any application and ensure address and other details are correct.The forms also contain essential information for guidance to students and trainers.It is hoped to introduce the new forms during October.
The ICATS reqDoc containing all the guidance for ICATS training is also being updated to reflect ISO 17024 and other changes. Remote training and guidance as well as other information is being added. And it is hoped to have this document approved in the near future.
As the UK slowly returns to some normality, we are now beginning to consider ICATS training in Northampton in the Autumn. The proposed dates will be put on the ICATS website during September for Supervisor, Trainer and Manager courses.
Welcome to this autumn edition of your magazine – I do hope you managed to enjoy the summer and got some vacation time.
Although the ICorr year runs from the 1st July to the 31st June each year it is at this time that our activities start to pick up again with branch meetings and other events.It’s exciting to see our Aberdeen and London branches re-starting in person meetings and exploring how we might be able to live-stream them as well for those who cannot attend.On the subject of branches, I’d like to thank everyone in the Northeast area who responded to our call for help with re-energising our branch there.We had numerous great offers and thanks to David Mobbs for coordinating the way forward – I look forward to attending one of the meetings.
On the 11th August we had our quarterly Council Meeting and I’m delighted to say our Institute remains in great shape.Our new cathodic protection courses are proving very popular and our new coatings courses are about to come on-stream.
With the easing of Covid restrictions I’ve been really pleased to attend two in-person events and meet some of our members.At the end of August I attended the opening of a new technology centre dedicated to pipeline pigging at Cokebusters in Chester, and in September I attended
the second day of the Corrosion Science Symposium at the University of Manchester.All the talks were excellent, and I was impressed by the progress being made in surface imaging at the nanoscale and the advances in modelling corrosion mechanisms at the atomic level.Whilst there, it was my privilege to give our UR Evans award in person to Professor Bob Cottis, University of Manchester for 2020 and to Professor Mary Ryan, Imperial College, London, for 2021.I’d like to thank Professor Stuart Lyon for organising a great event and you will be able to read more about the conference in the next edition.
Finally, I’d like to mention our approach to email communications with you.We work very hard to avoid sending you too many emails as we all understand the problem of email overload.Historically we have only sent you emails about events related to your branch activities as they were in-person events.However, since the arrival of Covid we have moved into the world of on-line presentations and live-streaming which means anyone can attend from anywhere in the world – albeit on UK time !This has proved very popular and, as a result, we have agreed that if a meeting is exclusively an in-person meeting we will continue to send emails only to the relevant branch members.However, if it is an on-line meeting, we will send to all our membership as it may be of interest to a wider audience.We still believe this will be a relatively small number of emails and expect no more than a few each month.
As ever I’d love to hear from you on this or any ICorr topic you have thoughts on.
Until next time,
Bill Hedges, Institute of Corrosion President
Email: president@icorr.org
The November technical talk will be on “Lessons Learned from 40 years in Corrosion Protection”, by Alex Garner, Corrosion Services Ltd. This is planned to be held on the 11th at the Lancaster House Hotel, Bayswater, London, with the meeting starting at 18.00.
The presentation will focus will be on the highs, with brief mentions of the lows, of a 40-year career in corrosion protection, including CP, material selection, coatings and insulation, for a wide variety of onshore and offshore facilities. The journey will start in 1980 and cover technical and social challenges in office and site -based work in Europe, Middle East, Asia, Canada, South America, and Australia. as well as the corrosion protection peers encountered over the years, many of which are now friends. The anecdotal guidance delivered in the presentation will highlight the pleasures and technical excellence that can be achieved in this industry and hopefully will not scare too many people away from it.
Those members that live or work in the North East area of England may recall that Neil Wilds and his committee ran a very successful ICorr NE Branch with technical evenings and social events for several years. Sadly, the branch has not been active over the last three years and ICorr are keen to reinvigorate activity in the NE of England.We are seeking members to become involved in forming a new committee for the NE Branch, and would request anybody that is interested to contact either myself or David Mobbs on the emails below.The intent is to keep time involvement to a minimum as we know everyone is very busy.
If you feel you could spare an hour or so every few months then please consider getting involved – you will find it rewarding. Email: president@icorr.org,david.mobbs@c-i-m.co.uk
The branch will again be holding face to face meeting at the Lancaster Hall Hotel, starting with a joint meeting with the London Materials Society (LMS) in October. As the virtual technical meetings held over the past 18 months allowed a wider participation than just from the London area, the branch are planning to also stream this meeting, so those from other parts of the UK, or abroad will be able to join in. Dates and details of speakers, can be found on the diary page and on the ICorr website.
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