Assessing Level and Effectiveness of Corrosion Education in the UAE

Table 4

Details on dedicated corrosion courses.

Dedicated corrosion courses
	University A	University B	University C	University D
Class level	—	Undergraduate	Undergraduate	Mixed*
Class size*	—	Fewer than 20 20–50	20–50	Fewer than 20 20–50
Required or elective	—	Required	Elective	Elective
Availability**	—	Once a year	Once a year	Every semester Once a year
Lab-based course	—	Available	Available	Available
Course name^#	—	(i) Corrosion	(i) Corrosion	(i) Material science
		(ii) Introduction to corrosion		(ii) Corrosion engineering
		(iii) Materials and corrosion		(iii) Advanced physical chemistry
				(iv) Corrosion chemistry

*Class size: number of students enrolled per class. **Availability: some of the courses were available once a year, others were available every semester. ^#Course name: courses listed based on participants’ own interpretations of how much corrosion content was taught in the course.