The President Writes

Institute News

Welcome to the 2nd issue of our Magazine for 2023. A new editor has now been appointed, Dr Shagufta Khan FICorr, and to give her time to settle into the role, Brian Goldie, the outgoing editor, has very kindly agreed to stay in position for this issue. The May/June issue will be Shagufta’s first as editor, and Brian will assist her for the first two issues. Thank you to Brian for so much hard work and many congratulations to Shagufta, who may be contacted at: editor@icorr.org, if you have any news or technical articles to submit.

It has been a busy year so far, with a number of events having taken place already amongst our various Branches and Divisions.
After extensive discussions between Bill Hedges, John Fletcher, myself, and representatives of IMechE, l am delighted to say the new 10yr ICorr/IAR Training agreement was signed on 6th January 2023 by both parties, see later in this issue.

The Birmingham 1-Day conference on February 9th brought together many of our ICorr award winners, several of our sustaining companies and training providers, for some truly excellent presentations in the splendid setting of the City Chambers. A report on this can be found in the local branch news section.
Another development, now approved by Council, is the new Yong ICorr 8-week summer internship, established in honour of Professor Anne Neville, who sadly passed away in 2022. This new scheme commencing in 2024, will provide the opportunity for undergraduate students to experience corrosion research, initially in the Institute of Functional Surfaces, University of Leeds, under the supervision of Dr Joshua Owen and Prof Richard Barker, thereafter rotating to other Universities. The internship aims to inspire high achieving undergraduate students into careers in the field of corrosion.

Finally, but not least, we are looking to investigate, and fully research in Q2, whether a direct ICorr CEng offering can be progressed over the short to medium term. It is believed that (resources/volunteers permitting) ICorr CEng Direct would form a key element of ICorr membership growth going forwards, and would give greater prestige to the Institute, and help retain our existing members. It is proposed that a sub-committee of PAC be established under Vice President Yunnan Gao, working alongside David Harvey and Anthony Setiadi. Also aligned to our goals has been the recent work of our ICorr Awards Committee, with preparation of nominations of ICorr members for CSD, EFC and IOM3 awards currently ongoing.

Nick Smart, after several years of service has now stepped down from the committee. The new CED chair, Danny Burkle, has kindly volunteered to take up these duties, and we welcome him on board. We offer our thanks to Nick whose past support is highly appreciated.

A reminder that April 27th will take us to the Annual CED Working Day event at NPL Teddington, entitled ‘Corrosion Prevention in the 21st Century: Learning from the Past to protect the Future’, and June 22nd and 23rd will feature our main 2-day Sustainability and Renewables conference for NE Branch. August 29th will again see Aberdeen host its well-respected annual 1-day Corrosion Awareness event. For all events, please check regularly:

https://www.icorr.org/events/month/2023-04/
Please contact me on any aspect of the Institute’s work at: president@icorr.org

For anyone who has not yet renewed their membership, do please liaise with Institute of Corrosion HQ, at admin@icorr.org, who will be happy to help you, especially if your contact details have recently changed.

With my very best wishes to you all.
Stephen Tate
President: Institute of Corrosion