The Seventeenth Annual Short Course
June 2-7, 2013

Registration for the 2013 course is now open. Please see the registration page for details

The course will cover the fundamentals of corrosion and various electrochemical techniques. Lectures and laboratories will be used to illustrate how electrochemical techniques are applied, when they should be used, and how the various techniques can be integrated to solve complex problems. The course will be useful for people entering the corrosion field and for professionals looking for a refresher course.

• Thermodynamics of corrosion
• Kinetics of corrosion
• Polarization
• Corrosion rate measurement techniques
• Passivity/localized corrosion
• Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
• Scanning probe methods for evaluating corrosion
• Statistical analysis of corrosion data
• Corrosion inhibitors
• "Care and Feeding of Computer-controlled Potentiostats"

• Corrosion potential measurements
• Polarization resistance
• Potentiostatic and potentiodynamic polarization
• Galvanic corrosion
• Pitting (including scratch techniques, metastable pitting, and critical pitting temperature)
• Electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation (EPR)
• Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)
• Electrochemical noise analysis

• Cell design
• Sample preparation
• Experimental techniques
• Practical examples

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