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A23 NACE INTERNATIONAL: VOL. 56, NO. 10 MATERIALS PERFORMANCE OCTOBER 2017 TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2018 How to Be an Author Presented by: Stephanie Chizik, Jonnie Fuller, Kathy Larsen, and Sammy Miles, NACE International Publications Division Ever wondered how you can be an author with NACE International? Your peers are published in Materials Performance, CoatingsPro Magazine, CORROSION journal, and NACE books. Why aren't you? Stop by our "open house" to find out from the editors and managers of these publications what you'd need to submit an article, paper, or book proposal. We're looking for authors. It could be you! University Student Design and Applied Solutions Competition (USDASC) Presented by: University Student Teams (TBN) The 3 rd Annual USDASC has challenged university student teams to design and build an autonomous system for corrosion inspection and detection in hard-to-access areas. Each team will be giving a 20-minute oral presentation of its design and system overview to the judging panel. The evaluation criteria for the project include: § Continuity, clarity, and organization of the documentation presented § Quality of research presented § Innovation in design of proposed solution § Methodology used by the team to create the final applied solution and the testing methods applied § Replicability of the solution (students should consider factors such as the cost associated with reproducing the solution presented) § Materials required to build the system § Advantages of proposed solution § Applicability to the competition design challenge topic The judging panel is comprised of the following: § Ron Latanision, Ph.D. – senior fellow, Exponent Failure Analysis; retired professor emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology § Harvey Hack, Ph.D. – senior advisory engineer at Northrup Grumman; past president and Fellow of NACE International § Christopher Scurlock, Ph.D. – senior consultant, LMI; executive secretary of the Technical Corrosion Collaboration Each student team will demonstrate its system on a fixed structure in the Exhibit Hall on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Workforce Planning and Training for Effective Utilization of FRP Products in Corrosion Applications in Both Manufacturing and Field Servicing and Installation Applications Presented by: Andrew Pokelwaldt This presentation will discuss key requirements in informing individual industry decision-makers, manufacturers, and installers on proper fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) application opportunities. It will go over steps for planning and selecting products that can introduce new corrosion applications and prepare the workforce for proper use of products. It will discuss key material application criteria to inform and educate corrosion professionals. Many companies are hesitant to select FRP materials for corrosion applications due to lack of confidence and workforce experience in a new product or process. The forum will outline some of the basic safety, training, and selection criteria and interact with attendees who have questions or concerns regarding applications that best suit FRP corrosion applications. The forum will outline how to prepare for quality assurance and proper application and prepare the workforce for informed decisions and applications of composite materials to prevent corrosion. It will outline the advantages of FRP products and which are the best applications to begin using them. It will introduce some of the workforce challenges and roles of technical employees both in specifying FRP products and the technicians who build and install them. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 Artificial Intelligence and Drone Technology Take-off: Vision-Based Automated Corrosion Detection from Drone Image Data Presented by: Michael H. Cohen and Dr. Gunho Sohn Globally, infrastructure is wearing out over time and its effective maintenance should be carried out in a timely manner to prevent further physical failure. For this, precise corrosion inspection of infrastructure is required. This forum introduces a state-of-the- art solution for detecting corrosion, including coating damage of facilities and infrastructure, using imagery data acquired by a GPS- denied UAV system. The solution adopted a vision-based approach from an artificial intelligence neural network system by extracting possible color and texture descriptors from image subregions, which discriminate between subregions suspected and not suspected to identify anomaly areas. The key aspect is the efficiency of the inspection process by reliably identifying potential corrosion areas using remote sensing drone image data over a complex infrastructure in GPS-denied environments, which results in cost and time savings as well as accuracy improvement. Corrosive Chronicles Returning to CORROSION 2018, the popular and expanded Corrosive Chronicles Theater will feature experienced corrosion professionals and NACE staff who will present interactive forums on a variety of corrosion-related topics on the Exhibit Hall floor. Conference attendees will learn unique lessons and solutions to corrosion issues that are relatable to their own field of expertise. Topics of discussion include the following: