Courses - Fall 2023
ENFP101
Introduction to Fire Protection Engineering
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENFP108 or ENFP101.
Formerly: ENFP108.
This course will introduce students to the impact of fire on people, property and the environment and methods to mitigate the threat of fire. Student teams will apply the principles of fire behavior and fire safety systems covered in the first half of the course to design, build and test a fire safe, small-scale apartment. A final experiment will be conducted to provide an assessment of the complete designs of each team.
ENFP250
Introduction to Life Safety Analysis
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENFP250 or ENFP251.
Formerly: ENFP251.
Introduction to fire protection engineering and building regulation focusing on building safety systems, egress system design and evacuation modeling.
ENFP300
Fire Protection Fluid Mechanics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: MATH246 and ENFP201; and must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in PHYS260, PHYS261.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: BIOE331, ENCE305, ENFP300, or ENME331.
Presents students with the fundamental properties of fluids and fluid movement. Both static and dynamic fluid problems will be considered with an emphasis on fire protection systems.
ENFP405
Structural Fire Protection
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENES220.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Fire Protection program; and permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENFP405 or ENFP621.
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.
ENFP410
Special Hazard Suppression Systems
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENFP310 and ENFP312.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Jointly offered with: ENFP610.
Credit only granted for: ENFP410, ENFP610 or ENFP653.
Analysis of application and theory of fire suppression systems. The key elements of fire suppression systems will be discussed along with how they interact for effective fire suppression design. Physical mechanisms for a variety of fire suppression approaches will be discussed including hose streams, sprinklers, water mist, foam, clean agents, and chemical agents.
ENFP415
Fire Dynamics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENFP312.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Jointly offered with ENFP651.
Credit only granted for: ENFP415 or ENFP651.
Designed to give students a quantitative understanding of fire behavior. The fundamentals of physics and chemistry of combustion are presented and used to derive key analytical relationships that describe fire growth. Application of these relationships to the analysis of common fire scenarios is emphasized.
ENFP425
Enclosure Fire Modeling
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENES232, ENFP300, and ENFP312.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Fire Protection program; and senior standing; and permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
An introduction to enclosure fire dynamics through the development of fire modeling algorithms and the application of computer-based fire modeling techniques. The objectives of the course are: to provide a basic understanding of enclosure fire dynamics with an emphasis on a system-level viewpoint (i.e., a global description of the coupling between combustion dynamics, smoke filling, vent flows and heat transfer); and to provide an introduction to the zone modeling approach. Topics covered include a review of the mathematical formulation of zone models, a discussion of numerical integration of the zone modeling equations (using MATLAB), and an introduction to zone modeling software used by professional engineers (e.g., CFAST).
ENFP429
Independent Studies
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Senior standing. For ENFP majors only.
ENFP440
Smoke Management and Fire Alarm Systems
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Must have completed with a C- or better or concurrently be enrolled in ENFP300.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Jointly offered with: ENFP627.
Credit only granted for: ENFP440 or ENFP627.
Analysis of hazard posed by smoke in buildings. Performance characteristics of smoke management systems. Review of analytical design aids. Functional analysis and design of fire detection and alerting systems. Examination and evaluation of code criteria, performance specifications and research.
ENFP464
Industrial Fire Safety
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Students must be of senior standing.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Also offered as: ENFP664.
Credit only granted for: ENFP464, ENFP489I, ENFP629I OR ENFP664.
Formerly: ENFP489I.
Additional information: The course will be taught as a dual senior-level undergraduate course and graduate course.
Designed to introduce students to the basics of process safety with a focus on the methods and techniques that may be utilized when evaluating the existing or proposed safety protection solutions in industrial facilities. An emphasis is placed on properly identifying the hazards that are present, the risk exposure, and how best to address the risk. The foundation is laid by presenting the necessary background information on industrial processes and integrating this information with applicable fire/explosion safety science.
ENFP489
Special Topics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
For ENFP majors only.
ENFP601
Introduction to Fire Protection Engineering
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Additional information: Highly recommended to incoming graduate students to Fire Protection Engineering who have not earned a Bachelor's Degree in Fire Protection Engineering.
The basic concepts of life safety, water-based fire protection systems, building construction, codes and standards along with tenability, fire behavior, and human behavior are introduced along with traditional and performance-based approaches for analyzing human response to fire. Students learn to analyze the egress systems and design basic water-based fire suppression systems.
ENFP610
Advanced Special Hazard Suppression Systems
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Jointly offered with: ENFP410.
Credit only granted for: ENFP410, ENFP610 or ENFP653.
Issues related to the suppression of fires and the design of fire suppression systems. Theoretical aspects of fire suppression and extinction are considered to provide the foundation for the practical design of different types of fire suppression systems. Focus on water-based and "clean agent" fire suppression systems, with emphasis on high challenge and special hazard applications. Systems using other agents are introduced, but are not addressed in detail.
ENFP619
Graduate Seminar
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENFP621
Analytical Procedures of Structural Fire Protection
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: ENFP312.
Cross-listed with ENFP621. Credit only granted for: ENFP405 or ENFP621.
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.
ENFP625
Advanced Fire Modeling
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering 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.
ENFP626
Computational Fire Modeling
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: ENFP300 and ENFP312.
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Fire Protection Engineering department.
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-based fire modeling; governing equations of turbulent reacting flows; numerical approaches to the treatment of turbulence (DNS, LES, RANS); numerical methods for partial differential equations; physical modeling of enclosure fires (turbulence, combustion, thermal radiation, pyrolysis, suppression). Development of sample programs (Matlab) and use of current CFD-based fire models (FDS).
ENFP627
Smoke Detection and Management
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg
Prerequisite: ENFP300.
Jointly offered with: ENFP440.
Credit only granted for: ENFP627 or ENFP440.
Analysis of hazard smoke. Response analysis of smoke detectors based on characteristics of detectors and properties of smoke. Performance characteristics and limitations of smoke management systems. Capabilities and limitations of analytical design aids.
ENFP629
Selected Topics
Credits:
3 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENFP649
Special Problems
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
ENFP651
Advanced Fire Dynamics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: ENFP312.
Jointly offered with: ENFP415.
Credit only granted for: ENFP629A, ENFP651 or ENFP415.
Formerly: ENFP629A.
A review of the basic chemistry and physics necessary to understanding fire dynamics; and of the physics of heat transfer and turbulent fluid flow will be given. The nature and structure of premixed and diffusion flames will be presented.
ENFP662
Performance Based Design
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Credit only granted for: ENFP629E or ENFP662.
Formerly: ENFP629E.
This on-line course demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire protection problems in the built environment and will provide an understanding of their performance-based design process, deterministic and risk-based analysis techniques, development of design fire scenarios, trial design development and analysis, and building lifecycle management.
ENFP664
Advanced Industrial Fire Safety
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Jointly offered with ENFP464.
Credit only granted for: ENFP489I, ENFP62 9I, ENFP464, or ENFP664.
Formerly: ENFP489I and ENFP629I.
This class is designed to introduce students to the basics of process safety with a focus on the methods and techniques that may be utilized when evaluating the existing or proposed safety protection solutions in industrial facilities. An emphasis is placed on properly identifying the hazards that are present, the risk exposure, and how best to address the risk. The foundation is laid by presenting the necessary background information on industrial processes and integrating this information with applicable fire/explosion safety science.
ENFP799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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