Graduate Courses
Fire Protection Engineering Courses Available to Graduate Students
ENFP 350 Professional Development Seminar (1)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Senior standing. An integrative, senior level professional seminar covering various topics such as engineering ethics, professional licensing, codes and standards development, career selection, and contemporary issues in fire protection engineering.
ENFP 415 - Fire Dynamics (3)
Prerequisite ENCH 300 or ENME 320, ENFP 300, and ENFP 312 or permission. Introduction to premixed and diffusion flames; ignition, flame spread and rate of burning; fire plumes; flame radiation.
ENFP 425 - Fire Modeling (3)
Prerequisite: Permission of department; Senior standing. Introduction to current fire modeling techniques for building fire safety assessment. Application of various computer-based fire models to representative problems.
ENFP 431 Building Safety and the Law (3)
Junior standing. Key topics include, biotechnology, safety regulation, federal preemption, product liability, professional negligence, antitrust, privacy and information technology, risk modeling, environmental protection, patent, copyright, trade secrets, reverse engineering, scientific and technological evidence, international trade, engineering ethics. Examples include plane crashes, computer chip protection, human machine interfaces, nuclear power plants, internet censorship, flood control, earthquakes and biomedical technology.
ENFP 435 Law and Technology (3)
Junior standing. Responding to natural and manufactured building hazards requires a complex legal environment, including regulation and liability. Key topics include the use of model codes, administrative regulation, retrospective codes, federal preemption, arson, performance based codes, risk based regulation, engineering malpractice, product liability and disaster investigation.
ENFP 611 Fire Induced Flows (3)
Recommended prerequisite or corequisite: ENFP 415. Theoretical basis is presented for fire induced buoyancy driven flows. plumes, ceiling jets, vent flows, compartment flows. Dimensional analysis for correlations and scale model applications. Smoke movement and combustion products.
ENFP 613 Human Response to Fire (3)
Prerequisite: permission of department.
Fractional effective dose (FED) methods for predicting time to incapacitation and death of fires for use in fire safety engineering calculations. Physiology and toxicology of fire effluent components, decomposition chemistry of common materials, standard experimental approaches. Predictive models of material production rates. People movement characteristics related to building evacuation. Formulation and application of evacuation models. Human behavior factors affecting response of people to fire situations.
ENFP 620 - Fire Dynamics Laboratory (3)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Experiments in diffusion flame combustion, thermal rates of release. Ignition, propagation, temperature, heat flux measurement-monitoring techniques. Modeling variables.
ENFP 621 - Analytical Procedures of Structural Fire Protection (3)
Prerequisite: ENFP 405. Analysis procedures for structural components of wood, steel, concrete, composites. Structural capabilities, modifications under fire induced exposures. Calculations, computer models for predicting fire resistance ratings of structural components.
ENFP 622 - Fire Protection Engineering Hazard Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Definition, evaluation of the fire risk of a process, facility or area. Prevention, intervention, control, suppression strategies. Resource allocation, queuing theory, decision priority, cost analysis.
ENFP 625 - Advanced Fire Modeling (3)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Validity, utility, reliability of current computer models. Applications of models in risk assessment, underwriting, loss prediction, hazard analysis. Development and validation of specific application models.
ENFP 627 - Smoke Detection and Management Systems (3)
Engineering principles applicable to the design and analysis of smoke management systems. Assessment of hazard posed by smoke. Forces affecting smoke movement. Airflow analysis in buildings. Review of performance characteristics of smoke management systems.
ENFP 629 - Selected Topics (3-6)
Prerequisite: permission of department. For ENFP majors only. Repeatable to 6 credits. Current research, studies in fire protection engineering. Future trends and significant changes in research, professional areas. The professional standards process.
ENFP 630 Diffusion Flames and Burning Rate Theory (3)
Basic principles of diffusion flames for gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels. Droplet burning, B number, jet combustion, boundary layer combustion, generalized methods.
ENFP 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Recommended: completion of ENFP graduate requirements. Repeatable to 6 credits. Development and completion of Master's Thesis.
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