Excellence in Canadian corrosion education through internationalization, equity, and interdisciplinarity (CORRECT)

腐蚀是材料的电化学/化学降解。腐蚀发生在所有类别的材料上，缩短了它们的使用寿命，导致腐蚀产物在环境中扩散，并导致灾难性事故甚至死亡。腐蚀科学和工程是专注于理解和控制这些腐蚀过程的学科。每年，全球约有3.4%的国内生产总值因腐蚀而损失。原因之一是缺乏受过教育的腐蚀科学家和工程师。此外，许多团体（例如，尽管腐蚀影响到整个社会，但在目前的劳动力中，妇女（土著妇女）的代表性严重不足。我们的目标是创建一个国际，公平和跨学科的腐蚀科学培训计划，以改善和重视腐蚀教育，增加在腐蚀中就业的公平群体的代表性，提高社会的腐蚀意识，并提高腐蚀学生的就业准备。我们设计了一个丰富的培训计划，在教育，性别和腐蚀研究人员和教师，未来的雇主和专业协会的跨学科团队。除了研究，专业培训和指导，学生将获得国际和跨部门实习和访问的机会，在六大洲19个国家的任何合作伙伴实验室，在我们的工业或政府合作伙伴组织之一，或在土著社区。这种经验是通过我们的腐蚀，公平，多样性，环境和社会培训来准备和跟进的，在这些培训中，学员提高了对腐蚀如何有害地影响某些社会群体，国家和环境的认识。专业培训包括减轻这些影响的工具，例如环境影响评估和商业案例分析，以向工业和政府利益相关者传达腐蚀保护的价值。与公众沟通是培训的一部分。我们的教育和性别研究将确保包容性腐蚀教育的长期改善。

Corrosion is the electrochemical/chemical degradation of materials. Corrosion occurs for all classes of materials, shortens their lifetime, results in the dispersion of corrosion products in the environment, and causes catastrophic accidents and even death. Corrosion science and engineering are disciplines focused on understanding and controlling these corrosion processes. Yearly, about 3.4% of global gross domestic product is lost due to corrosion. One of the reasons is the lack of educated corrosion scientists and engineers. Furthermore, many groups (e.g., women, Indigenous) are vastly underrepresented in the present workforce, although corrosion affects the entire society. We aim to create an international, equitable, and interdisciplinary training program on corrosion science to improve and value corrosion education, to increase the representation of equity-deserving groups employed in corrosion, to increase corrosion awareness in society, and to improve the job-readiness of corrosion students. We have designed a rich training program, in an interdisciplinary team of education, gender, and corrosion researchers and instructors, future employers, and professional associations. Besides research, professional training, and mentoring, the students will receive opportunities for international and intersectoral internships and visits, in any partner labs in 19 countries on six continents, in one of our industrial or governmental partner organisations, or in Indigenous communities. This experience is prepared and followed-up by our corrosion, equity, diversity, environment, and society training, where trainees increase awareness on how corrosion disproportionally affects certain societal groups, countries, and the environment. Professional training includes the tools to mitigate those effects, for example, environmental impact assessment and business case analyses to communicate the value of corrosion protection to industrial and governmental stakeholders. Communication to the general public is part of the training. Our educational and gender research will ensure long-term improvement of inclusive corrosion education.