ENFP -- Engineering, Fire Protection

ENFP 405 Structural Fire Protection (3) Prerequisite: ENES 220. For ENFP majors only. Effects of elevated temperature on structural materials; steel, concrete, wood, gypsum, glass and reinforced plastics. Experimental evaluation of fire resistance of building assemblies. Analytical methods to evaluate fire resistance of structural members.

ENFP 411 Fire Risk Assessment (3) Prerequisites: ENFP 251; and ENFP 255. Appraisal and measurement of fire safety. Application of systems analysis, probability theory, engineering economy, and risk management in the identification and synthesis of components of fire protection engineering. Methods for the development of criteria for the design, evaluation and assessment of fire safety or component hazards.

ENFP 415 Fire Dynamics (3) Prerequisites: ENFP 300 or ENCE 330 or ENME 342; and ENME 320 or ENCH 300; and ENFP 312 or permission of department. Introduction to premixed and diffusion flames; ignition, flame spread and rate of burning; fire plumes; flame radiation.

ENFP 416 Problem Synthesis and Design (3) Senior standing. Techniques and procedures of problem orientation and solution design utilizing logical and numerical procedures. Student development of research projects in selected areas.

ENFP 421 Functional and Life Safety Analysis (3) Prerequisite: ENFP 320. For ENFP majors only. Egress analysis. Characteristics of people movement in corridors and stairways. Human response to fire. Tenability analysis.

ENFP 425 Fire Modeling (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Senior standing. For ENFP majors only. Introduction to current fire modeling techniques for building fire safety assessment. Application of various computer-based fire models to representative problems.

ENFP 429 Independent Studies (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. For ENFP majors only. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. For students who have definite plans for individual study of approved problems, or study of an advanced topic selected in conjunction with the faculty.

ENFP 431 Building Safety and the Law (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 435 Product Liability and Regulation (3) Junior standing. Key topics include, biotechnology, safety regulation, federal preemption, product liability, professional negligence, antitrust, privacy and information technology, risk modelling, 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 450 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 455 Fabrics and Furnishings Flammability (3) Two hours of lecture, one hour of laboratory, and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Junior standing. For ENFP majors only. Characterization and analysis of the flammability and flame resistance of textile materials, including fabrics and interior furnishings. Mechanisms of ignition, burning and extinguishment include flaming or smoldering ignition, flame spread, heat output, smoke and toxic gas production, and extinguishability, material properties and respective fire test methods.

ENFP 489 Special Topics (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits. Selected topics of current importance to fire protection.

ENFP 610 Reliability and Risk Analysis in Fire Protection Engineering (3) Prerequisite: ENFP 411. Reliability engineering analysis techniques in fire protection engineering problems. Computer models, probability distribution theory and Monte Carlo methods.

ENFP 611 Fire Induced Flows (3) Recommended: ENFP 415. Theoretical basis is presented for fire induced bouyancy driven flows. Plumes, ceiling jets, vent flows, compartment flows. Dimensional analysis for correlations and scale model applications. Smoke movement and combustion products.

ENFP 612 Toxicity Evaluation and Analysis (3) Physical, analytical procedures for the measurement of the toxic components in thermally produced smoke and gases. Human tenability characteristics, physiological effects of exposure components, dosages. Predictive models of material production rates, degradation variables. Effects of the different measuring instrument variables. Combustion gas analysis techniques.

ENFP 614 Egress Characteristics and Design (3) Refuge and evacuation design principles for structures. Analysis of means of egress relative to area, height, structural, occupancy characteristics. Behaviorial interaction with thermal, fluid, flame propagation mechanisms. Egress prediction flow models.

ENFP 619 Graduate Seminar (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. For ENFP majors only. Repeatable to 3 credits.

ENFP 620 Fire Dynamics Laboratory (3) One hour of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Recommended: ENFP 415. Laboratory experiments are designed to illustrate fire phenomena and test theoretical models. Diffusion flames, ignition and flame spread on solids, liquid pool fires, wood crib fires, fire plumes, compartment fires.

ENFP 621 Analytical Procedures of Structural Fire Protection (3) Prerequisite: ENFP 421. 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: ENFP 610. Definition, evaluation of the fire risk to a process, facility or area. Prevention, intervention, control, suppression strategies. Resource allocation, queing theory, decision priority, cost analysis.

ENFP 624 Causative Analysis (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Techniques for the identification of ignition, propagation variables in fire incidents. Failure and fault tree analysis procedures with temporal reconstruction. Computer models for sequential fire reconstruction.

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 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 631 Fire and Combustion (3) Prerequisites: ENFP 300 and ENFP 415. Basic fluid mechanics, heat transfer and combustion principles are used to obtain simple analytical solutions, different fire initiation and spread cases. Specific fire problems such as smoldering, boil-over or flame spread are addressed as case studies.

ENFP 649 Special Problems (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. For ENFP majors only. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Advanced topics selected by the faculty from the current literature to suit the special needs and background of students, or for individual students who have definite plans of individual study.

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.