[...]... (continued) 1.4 The Functions and Roles of a Corrosion Engineer Work associated with corrosion assessment, mitigation, and management encompasses a wide range of technical disciplines, from expert support and review, through laboratory studies and failure investigations, and from corrosion assessment to corrosion management reviews and risk-based management implementation The corrosion engineer may be... influenced corrosion is certainly a biological process All corrosion engineers deal with life cycle costs and risk Corrosion is multidisciplinary so a corrosion engineer needs to know materials, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, some chemistry, a bit of electricity and electronics and so, it is not easy to become a corrosion engineer in full Understanding fundamental origins of corrosion, ... metallurgists, physicists, engineers, and so forth who are carrying out research and teaching in the field of corrosion and protection A corrosion training program designed for this group should focus on the phenomena associated with corrosion and its prevention in a manner based upon the scientific principles involved Besides specific courses and laboratories in corrosion prevention and control, additional courses... electrochemistry, chemical thermodynamics, and physical metallurgy should be required as prerequisites for the corrosion education Corrosion Technologists and Technicians Corrosion technologists, who must collaborate directly with the corrosion scientist and engineers, should also have a good understanding of scientific principles and be capable of applying these to practical problems Corrosion technicians are typically... provided many of the cases discussed and illustrated in Corrosion Engineering: Principles and Practice Your work at combating corrosion on all fronts has been greatly inspiring Pierre R Roberge, Ph.D., P.Eng About the Author Pierre R Roberge, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada, where he teaches materials engineering, corrosion engineering, and electrochemical power sources... materials in service and the production of energy with electrochemical power sources Dr Roberge has written numerous journal articles and conference papers and is the author of several engineering titles, including McGraw-Hill’s Handbook of Corrosion Engineering Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use CHAPTER 1 The Study of Corrosion 1.1 Why Study Corrosion? Most... (http://www.cp.umist.ac.uk/corros-l/) and the NACE International Corrosion Network (http://www.nacecorrosionnetwork com/read/all_forums/) 11 12 Chapter 1 Physics Chemistry Business Electrical engineering Materials engineering Civil engineering None Chemical engineering FIGURE 1.1 Distribution of disciplines in which active corrosion engineers have graduated As can be seen in Fig 1.1, materials engineering was by... paper published in 1952 and rerun in the August 1985 issue of Materials Performance, a corrosion engineer is for many organizations an engineer trained to recognize the nature of corrosion and understand the mechanics of corrosion processes [4] With this knowledge, the corrosion engineer can make a faster and more accurate diagnosis or analysis of any corrosion related problem and be in a much better... Chamberlain J Corrosion for Science and Engineering 2nd ed Burnt Mill, UK: Longman Scientific & Technical, 1995 2 Paparazzo E Surfaces—lost and found Nature Materials 2003; 2: 351–3 3 Cushman AS, Gardner HA The Corrosion and Preservation of Iron and Steel New York: McGraw-Hill, 1910 4 LaQue FL What can management expect from a corrosion engineer? Materials Performance 1985; 25: 82–4 5 Uhlig HH The cost of corrosion. .. conversion, waste treatment, and communications and transportation As new materials enter the marketplace and new engineering systems evolve to take advantage of their properties, it is of paramount importance for the corrosion engineer to understand the chemical limits of these materials and to develop corrosion control approaches that can be integrated into the design and operation of the systems . or indirectly provided many of the cases discussed and illustrated in Corrosion Engineering: Principles and Practice. Your work at combating corrosion on all fronts has been greatly inspiring. Pierre. including McGraw-Hill’s Handbook of Corrosion Engineering. Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for terms of use. CHAPTER 1 The Study of Corrosion 1.1 Why Study Corrosion? Most. prior written permission of the publisher. 0-0 7-1 6408 7-8 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-0 7-1 4824 3-1 . All trademarks are trademarks of their respective