Five University Teams Participate in Corrosion-Detection Competition
HOUSTON – NACE International and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) hosted five science and engineering teams competing in the first annual University Student Design and Applied Solutions Competition. Each team of university students has spent two semesters developing their own unique system aimed at addressing corrosion, which the DoD has identified as one of its most challenging problems.
Teams participating in the two-day event are from the University of Akron, Alfred University, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Military Academy and Texas A&M University. Each team presented its system design and then tested it on a customized metallic structure specially made with corrosion located in various hard-to-access areas, which the teams were tasked with finding. The competition was held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.