U-ACCESS & Phfeast – Food Security Partnership

The Office of Urban and Off-Campus Support Services, otherwise known as U-ACCESS, employs a multi-disciplinary approach to assist students who are dealing with a multitude of issues such as homelessness, emancipated from foster care, food insecurity and financial struggles. Phfeast, Inc. is a new start-up operating in the Venture Development Center and provides a restaurant loyalty program where customers earn dining gift cards for people in need

Concurrent Workshop: Best Practices and Approaches for Service Providers and Post-secondary Collaboration

In this workshop, service providers and post-secondary administrators will present an overview of their scope of services and collaborative efforts with other service providers, state agencies and post-secondary institutions. Participants will learn about different approaches and practices that serve homeless students who are in different stages of transitioning into post-secondary campuses

Metal corrosion rate determination in different solutions and reinforced concrete specimens by means of a non-contacting corrosion method

[EN] All the current techniques used to measure the metallic corrosion require contact with the metal. Particularly, in the case of reinforcement corrosion, this signifies the need to reach the bar that is embedded in the concrete, which consequently may result in the disruption of the integrity of the real structures. This paper studies the limits of application of a new methodfor polarizing the reinforcement or any metal in an electrolyte, without the need of direct contact. The polarization is obtained through the induction of current from an external electrical field. The current runs through the electrolyte and the metal in parallel, depending on the electrode arrangement. The resulting polarization resistance calculated is termed as inductive, Rp = Rpi, as reported in a previous paper. The inductive Rp is calculated by the model of resistances in parallel, which requires a separate measurement of the electrolyte ohmic resistance. In this study, solutions with several resistivities and concrete specimens with and without chlorides have been tested. Results indicate that electrolytes of low resistivity mask the measurement, and consequently, Rpi could not be calculated. In electrolytes with high resistivity, such as concrete, the feasibility is found to depend on the relative values of Re and Rpi.Peer reviewe