NACE Foundation

Our Mission
What We Do

The NACE Foundation raises funds to promote awareness and create educational opportunities for the future, global corrosion workforce.

An educated and experienced workforce in STEM is essential to meaningful innovation and economic growth, and studies show that 50% of future jobs will require STEM skills. The demand for proficient STEM professionals is strong and growing, yet jobs continue to go unfilled due to a shortage of trained and qualified workers. It is critical to the global economy that we engage the world’s future workforce to pursue education and training in STEM disciplines.

In partnership with NACE International, The Worldwide Corrosion Authority, the NACE Foundation is taking action to address this challenge now.

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Promote

higher education and recognize academic excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields.

Encourage

undergraduate and graduate student research and participation at industry events, competitions, and conferences.

Provide

hands-on corrosion experiments and curriculum to teachers to inspire, educate and excite their students.

Enable

U.S. veterans to gain STEM specific skills for re-entry into the job market with an alternative route to higher education.

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Recent News

NACE Foundation Year in Review (Fiscal Year 2018)
July 23, 2018
The NACE Foundation is proud to share all of the ways we are building your future workforce in the 2018 Year in Review. The 2018 Fiscal year includes July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018.
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2018 Founders Award Recipients – Debbie Goodwin & Andy Nydam
May 14, 2018
Debbie Goodwin and Andy Nydam have long been the face of the NACE Foundation’s cKit™ efforts, since its creation and implementation in 2005. Although both have retired from teaching, they continue to conduct trainings for teachers, including ASM’s Teacher Materials Camps each summer and the NACE Foundation’s CORROSION: Opportunities Realized
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